Lead innovative psychology services supporting complex care and patient pathways

Join Metro South Health as a Senior Psychologist and play a key role in supporting complex care pathways. Provide expert clinical services, mentor others, and contribute to service improvement while making a tangible difference in patient care and recovery.

Job details

Your new role:

We are seeking a Senior Psychologist to join the Pathways Support team, delivering high-quality psychological services for patients with complex presentations and long-stay discharge barriers. This role provides a unique opportunity to combine clinical care, multidisciplinary collaboration, and service improvement across multiple Metro South Health facilities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide evidence-based assessment, intervention, and behavioural support for complex inpatients.
• Act as a clinical liaison to interprofessional teams on long-stay discharge planning.
• Support service development, quality improvement, and clinical education initiatives.

About you:

We're looking for a skilled and compassionate Psychologist with advanced clinical expertise and a collaborative mindset.

You will bring:

• Strong experience in delivering complex psychological assessments, interventions, and discharge planning.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills across multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to supervision, mentoring, and service improvement in complex care pathways.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

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 Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS09655136 RD (PDF, 449KB)
  Role Description