Listed By: Qld Health - Metro South Hospital and Health Service on 30 Oct 2024
Child and Youth Mental Health are looking for a Senior Psychologist to join their team.
This role provides senior Psychology services within the Browns Plains Child and Youth Mental Health Intake and Clinical Services, delivering evidence-based care as part of a multidisciplinary team.
It supports optimal patient care through service development, quality improvement, clinical education, and contributes to quality and research initiatives.
The position also involves supervising and training less experienced clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants.
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim.
We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.
We are truly dedicated people who care about our community.
We come to work to make a difference.
We save lives, change lives and make the world a better place.
We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together.
We are bold, innovative, collaborative, and inspiring.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.
We are part of and proud of the community we serve.
We are better together.
Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role Manage an allocated workload to deliver Psychology services, including assessment, intervention and evaluation within a multidisciplinary team in accordance with established clinical & departmental protocols, policies and procedures, utilising evidence-based practice and ethical standards and under clinical practice supervision or professional guidance of senior staff.Liaise and work effectively in a professional manner with clients and their carers, other health professionals, students and external agencies to achieve a client-centred approach, utilising negotiation and conflict resolution skills as required.Continually develop clinical practice knowledge, skills and expertise through self-directed learning, active learning within a team environment and engaging in professional development activities, including participating in the performance appraisal and development plans.Develop clinical psychology practice knowledge and expertise by engaging in, initiating, and facilitating professional development activities within the multidisciplinary team and Psychology specific networks, and through clinical practice supervision, performance appraisal and competency training to ensure professional clinical standards are met.
Provide leadership and support around clinical services including Intake.Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description. Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health.
Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
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