Be the Difference: Senior Psychologist – Child & Youth Mental Health!

Join Logan Child & Youth Mental Health Service as a Senior Psychologist. Provide advanced clinical care, mentor clinicians, and contribute to service innovation!

Job details

About your role

As a Senior Psychologist within Logan Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS), you will deliver advanced, evidence-based clinical care to children, young people and their families. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver comprehensive psychological assessments, interventions and care planning.
• Provide high-level clinical consultation, co-therapy, and therapeutic group facilitation.
• Mentor and provide professional supervision to HP3 psychologists, students and support staff.
• Contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, protocols and service improvements.
• Collaborate with consumers, carers, schools, community organisations, and multidisciplinary teams.

About you

You are a skilled and compassionate psychologist who thrives in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment and is passionate about supporting children and young people with complex mental health needs.

You will bring:

• APAC-accredited psychology qualification and AHPRA general registration.
• Area of practice endorsement in Clinical Psychology as well as PsyBA approved Supervisor status (highly regarded).
• Authorised Mental Health Practitioner status (or eligibility to obtain it).
• Demonstrated expertise in delivering psychological services in a child and youth mental health setting.
• Strong skills in risk assessment, care planning and interagency liaison.
• Class C driver's licence and ability to work across multiple sites within Metro South Health.

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.

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

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
  
  MS09660751 Role Description (PDF, 515KB)
  Role Description