Join Victoria's Youth Justice Precinct at Cherry Creek. Lead a multi-disciplinary team of staff delivering psychosocial programs and individual interventions to support the management of a young person's behaviour in custody and reintegration into the community. Contribute to improving the outcomes of young people's futures.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (Youth Justice) is responsible for the statutory supervision of young people in the criminal justice system in Victoria focusing on prevention, diversion, and early intervention as the most effective and fiscally responsible ways of reducing youth crime. Youth Justice is committed to the demonstration of the departmental values at all times; Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership, Human rights. Children and young people involved in Youth Justice are either supervised in the community, by community youth justice workers located at Justice Service Centres across seven regions in Victoria or within custodial precincts. Custodial precincts focus on providing a genuine therapeutic setting, driven by relationships based on an integrated model of care and evidence-based approach to programs and services.

The three Youth Justice custodial precincts in Victoria are managed by the Department of Justice and Community Safety: Cherry Creek Youth Justice Precinct located to the west of Werribee, approximately 46 kilometres west of Melbourne. Parkville Youth Justice Precinct in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Parkville, approximately five kilometres from the central business district. Malmsbury Youth Justice Precinct located approximately 100 kilometres north of Melbourne.





Rehabilitation and Outcomes is a specialist team at the Cherry Creek Youth Justice Precinct that provides young people in custody with developmentally targeted and multi-systemic offence‑specific, offence‑related, and psychosocial assessments and intervention services and structured programs to support their rehabilitation, manage complex behaviours in custody and support their reintegration with caregivers, education and other related support systems in the community.

The Practice Lead reports directly to the Clinical Manager and will provide leadership and direction to a team of Behaviour Support Specialists at Cherry Creek Youth Justice Precinct. They will oversee a range of interventions and behaviour management strategies, and the delivery of evidence-informed psychosocial programs to support a young person's rehabilitation. The position will work within a multi-disciplinary team to achieve sustained change in a young person's behaviour through individual interactions with young people and staff in the units as well as structured programs.

The Opportunity

Ongoing, full-time position based at the Cherry Creek Youth Justice Precinct but working flexibly across other Youth Justice Custodial Precincts (Parkville & Malmsbury), where needed to respond to operational requirements.

Provide leadership to a team of Behaviour Support Specialists at the Cherry Creek Youth Justice Precinct.





Oversee the delivery of evidence-based psychosocial programs to support the rehabilitation of young people in custody.

Oversee the development of individualised strategies, interventions and plans that are responsive to the needs of young people and assist in reducing the occurrence and impact of behaviours of concern.

Provide high quality supervision and access to professional development, developing and maintaining a culture that supports best practice.

Lead the capacity building of unit staff through developing their skills and confidence to manage and intervene with positive behaviour strategies to manage young people in custody with highly complex behaviours.

Ensure that functional behavioural assessments contain evidence-based, proactive strategies that meet the specific needs of the young person displaying behaviours of concern and includes consideration of cultural and family support needs and responses.

Convene and/or attend relevant meetings to ensure that managers and staff are supported and guided in the system's response to highly complex behaviours.

Provide strategic advice to address complex service delivery issues and complex cases/matters relating to the behaviour management and rehabilitation of young people in custody.

Establish and maintain an effective coordinated, care team approach between custody and community, and external stakeholders on issues relevant to the behaviour management and rehabilitation of young people in custody.

Contribute to the development of key operational documents including operating manuals and/or procedures.

Contribute to the development and training of the Rehabilitation and Behaviour Support team and other staff involved in the delivery of intervention services to young people in custody.

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📌 Clinician, Practice Lead Behaviour Support (Melbourne)
🏢 Justice
📍 Melbourne