Code Black Psychology is a well-established provider of clinical and forensic psychological services to offenders and victim-survivors of interpersonal violence. Our team provide comprehensive risk and diagnostic assessments and cross-sector case planning. We also provide a range of coordination services to clients with multiple and complex needs with involvement in the health, justice and disability sectors.

Code Black provides a collaborative and psychologically safe environment for our practitioners with low caseloads to enable reflective, evidence-based analyses of high-risk, high-harm cases. Referrals for our services arrive from the health, justice and disability sectors. We also provide consultations to the corporate sector in complex HR/IR matters where we support the development of psychological safety within an organisation by bringing forensic and behavioural change lenses to addressing psychosocial hazards.

Code Black is new to the NDIS. We are responding to multiple requests from sectors across Victoria to provide behaviour support services for complex cases where the participant has multiple behaviours of concerns, complex needs, and often severe functional impairments. Our vision for a forensic behaviour support team is creating a service that utilises behavioural science to create positive behavioural change in situations where participants are typically subject to various legal orders, such as compulsory treatment orders, that would benefit from a deliberate focus on the will and preference of the participant as the change mechanism.

About Code Black Psychology

Code Black Psychology takes an interdisciplinary approach to specialist assessments and care team support services in highly complex cases of interpersonal violence. Our team are qualified in psychology, social work, and law. We specialise in cases of complex psychosocial disabilities and persistent risk of harm to self and others.

Code Black Psychology is a values-based organisation where we work collaboratively with our clients by living our values of confidence, curiosity, and integrity. We work extensively in the government and private sectors in Australia and New Zealand. Through teamwork we provide complex case consultations, diagnostic reviews, care team support and coordination, behaviour support and change, bespoke training, and advice on the psychological safety of workplaces.

About the Role

We are seeking a team leader who is a registered behaviour specialist practitioner within the NDIS PBS Capability Framework. As this is a new role, we are also seeking a practitioner who is enthusiastic to help us create a service for some of the most vulnerable people in our community. We are hoping to find a practitioner who shares our values of confidence, curiosity and integrity, bringing this to the development of the service. You will be able to work closely with the Clinical Director Dr Lisa Warren on complex cases and have the opportunity to participate in research and policy projects with our national and international colleagues.

Applicants for the role with registration with relevant regulatory or professional agency, such as AHPRA or AASW, are strongly encouraged to apply. However, those with outstanding experience in a relevant field are also preferred. Code Black Psychology is an equal opportunity employer who is committed to providing a high level of resources to what is inherently demanding work.

The role of Team Lead, Forensic Behaviour Support Team will be provided a generous salary, flexible working arrangements, professional development support and ongoing supervision. Code Black Psychology are part of a behaviour support community of practice. We collaborate regularly with leaders in the field and will encourage the team leader to take an active role in media and public discussion of the rights and needs of the community to take a holistic approach to violence prevention and intervention.

Main Duties:

• Lead the development and growth of the Code Black Psychology Forensic Behaviour Support Team
• Provide supervision and support to behaviour support practitioners at Code Black Psychology in their case completion and professional development through the levels of competency
• Collaborate with the senior leadership team to ensure the team’s operations and visions are well-aligned with the work of the other teams and work areas at Code Black
• Develop behaviour support plans that are evidence-based and person-centred where the will and preference of the participant defines the aims of behavioural change
• Create (or continue) a strong working relationship with the Office of the Senior Practitioner in Victoria to ensure regulated restrictive practices in all cases comply with the NDIS rules and are faded out as swiftly and effectively as possible

The desired candidates for the position will:

• Enjoy working in a psychological safe environment, be able to contribute and hold a positive attitude towards others, have a sense of humour, fun and enjoyment of the work
• Enjoy working collaboratively and in a non-judgemental way with difficult to engage clients to uphold their dignity and opportunity for recovery
• Enjoy communicating and working with stakeholders and be adept at navigating the social complexity of care teams with differing views as to the pressing issues and possible solutions

Skills and experience:

• The greatest skills required at Code Black Psychology is a curious approach to the work and a willingness to collaborate within and beyond our organisation
• Endorsed as an advanced or specialist behaviour support practitioner within the NDIS Capability Framework
• Experience within the criminal justice sector and in forensic behavioural science will be highly regarded
• Applicants with registration with a relevant regulatory or professional agency, such as AHPRA or AASW, are strongly encouraged to apply, although, those with outstanding experience in a relevant field will also be preferred candidates
• Experience and demonstrable strength in report writing is an inherent requirement of all positions at Code Black Psychology

Support for You

You will be part of a psychologically safe team that support each other in case discussions, peer supervision and novel problem solving. Your interests and experience will help shape the role, particularly where your skill set can enhance the team’s ability to provide clear case formulations, problem clarity, and agile interventions. An interest in research translation and facilitating bespoke training will also be valued. Professional development is encouraged and financially supported.

Code Black is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage flexibility for our team members balancing life’s demands, with time and support to undertake ongoing professional development through an engaging career. We offer a hybrid working model that enables working from home and from our offices in Malvern.

For general enquiries, please contact in the first instance Lisa Warren via email [email protected] using the subject line: Behaviour Support Practitioner - Team Leader enquiry via EthicalJobs.

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CODE BLACK

Visit our website at https://www.codeblackpsychology.au/