Job description Agency Department of Corrections Work unit Community Corrections Management and Administration Job title Senior Practice Director Designation Senior Professional Officer 2 Job type Full time Duration Ongoing Salary $152,751 - $166,487 Location Darwin Position number 45509 RTF 350262 Closing 20/07/2026 Contact officer Sheena Neill on 08 8935 7418 or sheena.neill@nt.gov.au About the agency https://corrections.nt.gov.au Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=350262 APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS. Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website. Primary objective The Senior Practice Director is accountable for staffing and practice changes designed strengthen our workforce by increasing specialist offender management expertise and promoting staff resilience and wellbeing. Context statement The Community Corrections Practice Leadership Team aim to strengthen offender management responses and build workforce capacity through strategies outlined in a Practice Enhancement Framework and the Resilience Framework. Key duties and responsibilities 1. Develop and implement the Practice Leadership Team and Practice Enhancement Framework. 2. Supervise the Senior Practice Leaders, oversight the supervision of the Practice Leaders and contribute to the supervision and management of front-line Community Corrections staff. 3. Accountability for the evaluation and continuous improvement of the staffing model and framework. 4. Build workforce capacity through resilience training, staff wellbeing initiatives and divisional oversight and increase staff access to supervision, professional development and training in offender management and risk assessment. 5. Provide expert advice to the Community Corrections branch on domestic and family violence and sexual offending, high risk, complex, high-profile cases, legal inquiries and sentencing matters, in accordance with the Offender Management Framework and the Performance Improvement Framework. 6. Complete risk assessment and treatment with complex and high-risk offenders and provide expert opinions and reports for internal and external stakeholders. 7. Develop and maintain relationships with academic institutions, training providers and interstate correctional services jurisdictions to strengthen our workforce and practice. 8. Successful applicant must hold a Northern Territory Driver’s Licence and may be required to travel within regional and remote communities and camp out when required. Travel may be by means of road and air, including on outback roads in four-wheel drives, light aircraft and boats. Selection criteria Essential 1. Tertiary qualifications in psychology with unconditional registration to practice as a psychologist in Australia through AHPRA, eligibility for full membership of the APS and accreditation as an AHPRA supervisor. 2. Significant forensic experience with domestic and family violence and knowledge of contemporary justice theories. 3. Significant expertise working across culture and a high-level understanding of cultural and contextual factors. 4. Demonstrated high level leadership, negotiation and change management skills including the ability to develop and maintain trust, establish clear goals and exercise fair and objective judgement. 5. Experience in clinical governance, auditing, research and evaluation and research and expertise in design and development of supervision, training and continuous improvement frameworks. Desirable 1. Post Graduate qualifications or equivalent experience in leadership, management. Further information The preferred applicant/s will be required to complete a pre-employment questionnaire and the successful applicant/s will be required to undergo a criminal history check (confirmed by fingerprints and name check) prior to commencement of employment. An adverse criminal history will not necessarily exclude an applicant from this position. All Department of Corrections employees are subject to random drug and alcohol testing.
