Queensland Corrective Services delivers safe, modern, and responsive correctional services focused on rehabilitation and crime prevention. As Regional Manager, Psychological Services, you’ll lead a multidisciplinary mental health team across multiple correctional centres, ensuring high-quality, outcome-driven service delivery.

Key responsibilities include strategic leadership, clinical supervision, stakeholder engagement, and operational planning. You’ll bring expertise in allied health or criminal justice, strong leadership and communication skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Mandatory qualifications vary by profession, with registration and relevant experience essential. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful impact on offender rehabilitation and community safe.

Job details

Queensland Corrective Services provides safe, modern, and responsive correctional services that rehabilitate prisoners and offenders, helping to prevent crime and make Queensland safer. Our staff come from all walks of life and are united by the rewarding, exciting, and dynamic lifestyle of working in corrective services. Our values, Professional, Ethical, and Respectful, underpin everything we do.

As Regional Manager, Psychological Services, you will play a key role in the effective and efficient delivery of high-quality mental health services in correctional centres. You will provide leadership and strategic management of a regional psychological and allied health workforce across multiple locations, ensuring accountable, outcome-based, high-quality mental health practices.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide leadership and operational coordination of allied health teams across multiple locations.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality, outcome-focused mental health service delivery.
• Monitor workforce management across nominated locations to identify priorities and resource allocation
• Provide expert clinical advice, clinical practice supervision, and training to staff
• Contribute to strategic planning, policy development, and operational analysis.
• Liaise with stakeholders and maintain a clinical caseload for complex cases.
• Ensure compliance with governance, human resource, budget, and work place health and safety requirements.
• Mentor senior staff and drive continuous improvement in service delivery.

What you'll bring

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Experience in criminal justice, human services, or allied health settings
• Proven leadership and management of service delivery teams, including ability to apply contemporary human resource management practices
• Strong organisational, communication, and problem-solving skills
• High-level negotiation and conflict resolution abilities
• Demonstrated experience in change management
• Capacity to drive operational capability and continuous improvement
• Understanding and application of practice supervision models and techniques.
• Knowledge, interpretation and application of relevant legislation, policies and procedures

Mandatory Requirements

• Psychologists: Tertiary qualification in Psychology, full AHPRA general registration as a Psychologist, Approval by Psychology Board as supervisor or eligibility to undertake process (mandatory), postgraduate qualification in clinical/forensic psychology and practice area endorsement (highly regarded).
• Social Workers: Eligible for AASW membership (mandatory), mental health accreditation through AASW and/or 2+ years' post-graduate experience in mental health (highly desirable), postgraduate qualification (highly regarded).
• Occupational Therapists: Degree in Occupational Therapy, and AHPRA registration (mandatory), mental health endorsement and/or 2+ years' post-graduate experience in mental health (highly desirable), postgraduate qualification (highly regarded).

This is a rewarding clinical leadership opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day by supporting offender rehabilitation and community safety. If you're ready for your next career move, we encourage you to apply. Please refer to the job description for full details on qualifications and requirements.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/671002/25

Closing Date: Thursday, 11th December 2025

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

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• 671002-25-Role Profile (PDF, 265KB)
  
  
  671002-25-Applicant Information Guide (PDF, 957KB)