Forensic Intern Clinician
Core
Provide limited specialist clinical services including screenings, assessments, and group-based interventions to people in custody and on community-based dispositions who have perpetrated sexual/violent offences or offences connected with substance misuse.
Role type
Provisional Intern Clinician (Psychology/Social Work/Counselling/Mental Health Nursing/Occupational Therapy)
Builds
Offence-specific risk assessments, treatment plans, and intervention programs for offender rehabilitation
Domain
Corrections / Forensic Mental Health / Offender Rehabilitation
Required skills
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Risk Needs Responsivity model, Strengths Based Approaches, clinical interview, reflective practice, clinical supervision
Preferred skills
Self-reflection, self-drive, openness to learning
Technologies
CBT frameworks, Risk Needs Responsivity model
Responsibilities
Conduct offence-specific risk assessments and determine treatment pathways; Facilitate/co-facilitate group-based intervention programs; Author risk assessments and treatment completion reports; Travel across the state to prison locations
Seniority
Intern (Fixed Term 14-Month)