AOAS Clinical Psychologist in Melbourne

Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high-quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland. We have more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics that provide comprehensive care from welcoming newborns to supporting older people and a full range of services in between. More than 22,000 dedicated staff are focused on providing exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care through shared expertise, compassion, and a commitment to continuous growth. Education and training are central to staff development as we encourage all employees to strive and thrive.

Join the Psychology Team at Alfred Care Group - Bayside Health! Alfred Care Group's Psychology Department mission is to provide excellent, innovative, evidence based, inclusive and collaborative psychological services to improve the health, wellbeing and development of consumers, carers, our staff and broader systems.

Two 12-month Fixed Term Part Time positions (48 hrs/fn & 64 hrs/fn) Psychologists Grade 2 Based at St Kilda Road Clinic.

The Role: Alfred Mental & Addiction Health Program (AMAH) provides specialist psychiatric clinical care to people with severe mental illness. The Program has a primary responsibility for residents of inner South-eastern metropolitan Melbourne but cares for all patients seeking its services. The AMAH Adult and Older Adult Service (AOAS) is based at St Kilda Road Clinic and utilises a recovery framework to provide centre based and outreach assessment, treatment, and support services to clients who experience a serious and/or enduring mental illness, and who require specialist clinical services. The Community Mental Health staff aim to work in partnership with consumers and carers, enabling them to be involved in their care in order to achieve the best possible outcomes. These teams are multidisciplinary including Consultant Psychiatrists, Registrars, Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Peer Workers and Clinical and Clinical Neuropsychologists.

Clinical Psychologists work across the sub teams of AOAS including Continuing Care Team (CCT), MSTS, MAPS, BIT and PTS. Key responsibilities include:

• Working in collaboration with consumers to offer evidence-based assessment, formulation and treatment to support recovery goals of consumers with complex mental health concerns.
• Participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team in the development and implementation of treatment/recovery plans for clients, and provide specialist psychological consultation and advice.
• Assist in the planning, evaluation and development of clinical service delivery policy, programs, procedures and systems.
• Active participation in Alfred Psychology Department and St Kilda Road Clinic activities such as professional development sessions and case presentations.

About you: You are registered with AHPRA, and have endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Victoria) Act 2009 (or eligibility and willingness to undertake a registrar program to obtain endorsement). You have experience, knowledge and skills in the formal psychological assessment, and application, of clinical psychological/therapeutic interventions for complex clients, including clients with a complex trauma, personality disorder or psychosis. You are reflective, committed to ongoing learning, and passionate about embedding research in day to day practice. You have strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

Great employment benefits as part of Alfred Care Group – access to wellbeing initiatives, staff gym, salary packaging, novated leasing, onsite childcare services, a payroll deductible expense, modern onsite library facilities, exclusive to Alfred Health staff, close to public transport and cafes.

For all enquiries, please contact Cecilia Lau, Principal Clinical Psychologist, AMAH on 03 9076 9***, ******@alfred.org.au and Dr. Anna Uliando, Deputy Director of Psychology (p: 03 9076 9***, e: *********@alfred.org.au).

Applications Close: 11pm AEDT, Thursday 5th November 2026. We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, and people of all genders, sexualities, and cultural backgrounds. If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application materials, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

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