JUST hours after his release from prison, Ben Cousins has been offered a job by his former club.

West Coast, where Cousins played 238 of his 270 AFL matches including the 2006 premiership, will give the fallen star a part-time employment opportunity in their Community and Game Development department.

“The West Coast Eagles is pleased with the news that former captain Ben Cousins has been released from prison today,” the statement read.

“This has been a particularly hard time for Ben and his family and we look forward to him beginning the next phase of his life.

“He has been offered part-time employment by the club, working with our Community and Game Development department, which we believe will have mutual benefits for both parties.”

A smiling Cousins left prison this morning, almost a year after he was jailed for stalking his ex-partner.

The 2005 Brownlow medallist was collected from Acacia Prison by his father Bryan at about 8am.

Cousins was sentenced to 12 months behind bars last February after stalking his former partner Maylea Tinecheff and repeatedly breaching a violence restraining order.

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Cousins, bombarded his ex, who is the mother of his children, with more than 2000 texts and phone calls between January and February last year and approached her at her church, her home and their children’s school.

He tried to contact her 542 times in November 2016, including 103 times in a single day.

Cousins was due for parole in August but failed a drug test while on remand.