At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide expert psychological care for adolescents with complex eating disorders and lead innovative service improvements.
- Company: Metro North Health, a progressive organisation at the forefront of healthcare.
- Benefits: Flexible working arrangements, competitive salary, generous superannuation, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic environment promoting inclusion, flexibility, and a healthy work-life balance.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in mental health while mentoring the next generation of clinicians.
- Qualifications: Advanced clinical expertise in psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 $ per year.
Permanent part time opportunity to provide expert psychological care for consumers with complex eating disorders, delivering evidence-based therapies, leading innovative service improvements, and mentoring the next generation of clinicians within a recovery-focused multidisciplinary team.
About you
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:
- Deliver high-level psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for adolescents experiencing complex mental health and alcohol and other drug concerns within a specialised acute inpatient setting.
- Apply advanced clinical expertise across assessment, risk management, care planning and therapeutic interventions, with the autonomy to manage a complex and diverse caseload.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, influencing treatment planning and partnering with consumers, families and key stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes.
- Provide expert consultation and clinical advice on complex presentations, contributing to service excellence and continuity of care across the mental health sector.
- Lead quality improvement, research and innovation initiatives that enhance psychological services and support the delivery of contemporary, evidence-based care.
- Mentor and supervise psychologists, students and multidisciplinary staff, helping to shape professional development and maintain high clinical standards across the service.
Benefits when working for Metro North Allied Health
- Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
- Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of 12.75% and access to generous salary packaging.
- Additional entitlements for employees (casual employees excluded) may include sick leave, carer's leave, long service leave, paid parental leave, leave without pay to travel, professional development allowance and leave.
- 5% annual leave loading with up to 27.5% for shift workers.
- Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas.
- Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
Metro North Health offers a dynamic and progressive environment at the forefront of healthcare, research, and education. With a strong commitment to inclusion, flexibility, and professional development, we provide meaningful opportunities in a workplace that puts people first.
Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged and welcomed.
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