Employment type: Ongoing Opportunity – Full time or part time job share arrangement available
Step Into Leadership – Make a Real Impact in a Regional Setting That Values You
Join the psychology team at Wellington Correctional Centre, where you'll provide clinical leadership, influence rehabilitation outcomes and support the delivery of high-quality psychological services for people in custody. Working with diverse and complex presentations, you'll mentor and develop psychologists, contribute to evidence-based practice and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to support safer communities.
This is more than a leadership role—it's an opportunity to expand your influence, build specialist expertise and make a lasting impact on rehabilitation, recovery and community safety.
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Why Wellington?
Advance your leadership career at Wellington Correctional Centre, where you'll provide clinical leadership, mentor psychologists and influence rehabilitation outcomes. Based at Wellington Correctional Centre, working with complex presentations and a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you'll help shape best-practice psychological services and contribute to safer communities.
Located in the heart of Western NSW, Wellington offers a relaxed regional lifestyle with Dubbo just 50km away, providing access to excellent schools, childcare, sporting facilities, entertainment, dining and transport connections.
Find out more about living and working in Dubbo at https://dubbo.com.au/live.
Every day, you'll provide clinical leadership that supports rehabilitation and contributes to safer communities. You'll lead high-quality psychological services, oversee complex assessments and interventions, and provide expert advice on high-risk and complex cases.
As a Senior Psychologist, you'll mentor and supervise psychologists, build workforce capability and promote evidence-based practice.
As a Senior Specialist Psychologist, you'll provide advanced clinical consultation, contribute to clinical governance and lead service improvement initiatives.
This is more than a leadership role—it's an opportunity to influence practice, develop others and make a lasting impact on rehabilitation and community safety.
You're an experienced psychologist who is passionate about supporting positive change and rehabilitation outcomes. You bring strong clinical expertise, sound judgement and the ability to navigate complex presentations with confidence.
You thrive in collaborative environments, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and are committed to evidence-based practice, clinical excellence and developing others.
Whether your experience comes from forensic, correctional, clinical or related settings, you're resilient, adaptable and motivated by meaningful work that contributes to safer communities.
For approved application to Senior Specialist Psychologist, applicants must demonstrate evidence of all additional characteristics as defined in the Crown Employees Psychologist Award.
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Why join Corrective Services?
Are you ready to join us?
Applications close 16/10/2026 at 11:59pm AEST.
Got a question?
Erin Morrison on 68455728 or via erin.morrison@correctiveservices.nsw.gov.au
Divya Soni on 02 9765 1987 or via divya.son@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.
Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.
A Talent Pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months. Priority will be given to filling the role at Wellington & Macquarie Correctional Centres.
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