Advance psychological care for older adults and lead clinical excellence

Use your psychology expertise to improve outcomes for older adults while leading clinical excellence, education and service development.

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Your new role:

The Role

Play a key role in delivering specialist psychology services for older adults, supporting high-quality patient care across geriatric medicine, stroke and Pathways services at QEII Hospital.

• Provide advanced psychological assessment, intervention and support for patients with complex presentations, including cognitive impairment, delirium and behaviours of concern.
• Lead and contribute to evidence-based models of care, service development activities, quality improvement initiatives and research projects that enhance patient outcomes.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, providing expert clinical advice and supporting patient-centred care, discharge planning and community linkages.
• Supervise, educate and mentor less experienced clinicians, students and allied health assistants while contributing to workforce development and clinical capability.

About you:

About You

You are an experienced and collaborative psychologist who is passionate about improving outcomes for older people and contributing to excellence in healthcare delivery.

• Demonstrated expertise in delivering high-quality psychology services within complex healthcare environments, ideally with experience supporting older persons.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships, provide clinical advice and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven ability to manage complex clinical workloads, prioritise competing demands and deliver evidence-based assessment, intervention and discharge planning.
• Commitment to leadership, supervision and continuous improvement, with experience supporting staff development and contributing to service enhancement initiatives.

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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.

About us:

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

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 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.

• MS06685125 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)