Psychologist - Senior (Child Development), Queensland HealthJoin the Darling Downs Health team as a Senior Psychologist in Child Development, where you'll play a pivotal role in delivering expert psychological services to children and families within a supportive, multidisciplinary environment. Make a real impact by providing diagnostic assessment and tailored interventions for children with neurodevelopmental delays, all while collaborating with community partners and leading service development initiatives.
What your day will look like… In this role, you'll be working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, providing high-level clinical psychology services to children with complex developmental needs. You'll conduct thorough assessments, formulate treatment plans, and deliver interventions tailored to each child and family, ensuring they feel supported and empowered. Collaboration is key as you'll engage with a range of health professionals, community partners, and service managers to ensure integrated care delivery. Your day will involve a mix of direct clinical practice, mentoring junior staff, participating in service development, and driving quality improvements to optimise outcomes. Your expertise will guide the team and shape the future of child development services in the region.
Let's talk about you! Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.Why Us? Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlementsEducation opportunities, Study and ResearchPaid parental leaveEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Discounted Private Health InsuranceFitness PassportWork-Life Balance, Variety and FlexibilityGenerous Salary SacrificingApplicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
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