Take advantage of our salary packaging benefits to increase your take home pay! Therapy sessions vary between a client's home, in clinic or community with children aged 0-10 years Support includes team meetings, discipline specific meetings, transdisciplinary meetings, peer mentoring and supervision PD leave (pro-rata) We are part of the Portable Long Service Scheme! Bring your long service leave accrual from your current eligible employer and make it count m Admin support with full control of your work schedule Work laptop and mobile provided (by request) to staff Located in Officer (with a possibility to attend our other sites as required) The Role: bestchance Child Family Care is currently seeking a Senior Psychologist (Psychology Board of Australia Approved Supervisor) with a positive and proactive approach to join our dedicated Children's Therapy team.
Reporting to the Program Manager - Children's Therapy Services, you will provide clinical leadership to our team of Psychologists and more broadly to the whole Allied Health team to provide high quality services, integrating the developmental and therapeutic needs of children in order to increase children's meaningful participation in daily life.
As an active and key member of the Children's Therapy leadership team, this role will focus on advancing evidence based care through a transdisciplinary model, elevate staff culture to yield positive client outcomes and high performing teams.
This is an on-going role, working from our new, state of the art Officer head office. With flexibility around time-fraction, we are seeking a commitment of at least three full days per week up to full-time hours.
About you: To be successful you will be registered as a Psychologist with AHPRA, and have demonstrated ability and knowledge supporting children (and their families) with developmental delays and disabilities aged 0-10 years. You will need to be able to lead and engage in family-centred goal setting and review processes.
Crucial to your success will be your ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with stakeholders and families from a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds.
In addition to the above we offer: Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary carers Strong proactive focus on health and wellbeing, understanding that carers need caring too! Genuine flexible working arrangements in a supportive, inclusive and passionate team Protected mentoring and supervision time Opportunity to be part of our mentoring program to offer our Level 1 therapists support Access to Employee Wellbeing Program All bestchance Children's Therapy Services staff are required to hold a WWCC and be able to provide a satisfactory National/International Criminal History Check and NDIS Screening Clearance prior to employment.
About us: CTS provide therapeutic intervention and capacity building supports to children aged 0-10 years and their families. We service families through the NDIS, Department of Education's Continuity of Support program and also provide capacity building supports to educators through the School Readiness Funding (SRF) program.
We are committed to best practice within the early childhood intervention space and deliver our services through the Key Worker model by using a Transdisciplinary Practice (TDP) approach and for more complex cases, a Team Around the Child (TAC) approach. We are passionate about providing a welcoming and safe environment for our children and families to thrive and learn, and have adopted family-centered and strengths-based practices.
bestchance Child Family Care is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of building stronger communities, healthier families and happier childhoods. We achieve this through our quality education, care and therapy services for children, our support programs for families, and our registered training organisation.
bestchance Child Family Care provides a supportive environment to grow, nurture and develop strong bonds with children and families.
For more information visit our website at https://www.bestchance.org.au/early-childhood-intervention-ndis/ Applications: For a copy of the position description, please visit https://careers.bestchance.org.au/.
If you have any questions regarding this position please contact the Officer Team Leader Collette Martin on 0438 467 760 or via email on ******.
bestchance is a child safe and equal opportunity employer. We are committed to child safety and have zero tolerance of child abuse. Applicants should be aware that we carry out Working with Children, Police Records and reference checks to ensure that we are recruiting the right people. Psychologist Posted Date
15 Aug 2024 Location
Officer
VIC / Australia
Industry
Healthcare & Medical Job Type
Full Time Salary
Not provided
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