Senior Clinical Psychologist – Adult Mental HealthP4 (0.2 EFT)

Senior Clinician / Psychologist -NE Mobile Support & Treatment Service (NEMSTS) - P3 (0.8 EFT)

• Make an impact in supporting the mental health of people and their families
• Ongoing permanent opportunity available – Monday to Friday

• Heidelberg location, with multiple public transport options available
• Competitive base + salary packaging + super

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Mental Health Division

The Mental Health Division provides mental health assessment and interventions for people experiencing mental illness, and their family and carers. Working from a recovery-orientated model, the Mental Health Division provides an array of hospital-based, community and specialist services for infants, children, young people, adults and aged people throughout Victoria. All mental health services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery-orientated practice and supported decision-making.

The Mental Health Division has a highly supportive and collaborative team culture, based on the foundations of the Austin Health values.

About the role

This role is comprised of a case management (0.8 EFT) and a leadership (0.2) component.

Senior Clinical Psychologist (0.2 EFT) - Grade 4

• Psychology has a critical role in innovating, implementing and translating best practice treatment interventions within Adult Mental Health.
• This clinician would play a leadership role as Grade 4 for the Adult Mental Health Directorate in collaboration with the Discipline Senior Psychologist (Grade 5).

Intensive Community Care Clinician (0.8. EFT) - Grade 3

• Manage a clinical case load,
• Ensure continuity of care to consumers, families and carers through the principles of case management,
• Provide psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence based psychological intervention / therapy for a wide range of adult mental health presentations. Where appropriate contribute to the ongoing development and promotion of psychological services and activities – such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Family Therapy based interventions, and group programs for consumers or family / carers. The aim here is to target recovery for consumers with longer term psychiatric disability.Apply the principles of recovery orientated practice within a clinical setting,
• Undertake further assessment, formulation and treatment of MST consumers and contribute to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of treatment objectives.

About you

You will be someone who has excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work both autonomously and as a part of the team.

You’ll bring with you:

• Substantial clinical experience of at least 10 years,
• Current Registration with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency,
• Minimum of Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology,
• Psychologists must be registered with a specialist endorsement in Clinical Psychology,
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, as well as within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to a collaborative approach to consumer care and service development / delivery,
• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency registration as a Board Approved supervisor and supervisory experience,
• Experience in mental health settings and specialty in intervention relevant to clinical psychology,
• Demonstrated ability to provide primary and secondary consultation,
• Experience in the provision of staff support with strategies to assist with consumer management, and
• Team player with ability to work closely with psychiatric, medical, nursing and allied health staff.

Essential for Performance   

• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills,
• Demonstrated experience in recovery and collaborative clinical practice,
• Experience in providing therapeutic interventions, including but not limited to cognitive behavioural therapy, family therapy, peer support, interventions focused on activity / vocation or additional treatment interventions,
• A thorough working knowledge of the Mental Health Act (2022), the Carer Recognition Act (2012), and Chief Psychiatrist Guidelines,
• Knowledge of, and the ability to apply, the principles and practices of your discipline,
• Demonstrated experience and ability in community-based assessment and management of people with substantial and prolonged mental illness,
• A positive approach to ongoing self-education and skill development,
• A flexible, innovative team-oriented approach to service delivery,
• A positive approach to change and diversity, and
• A current Victorian driver’s license.

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day.  Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
• Mentoring and career development opportunities
• Austin childcare, easy access via public transport