Bring your psychology expertise to a collaborative team where every day makes a difference.

Join Metro South Health as a Temporary Part-Time Senior Psychologist (6-month contract, 68.4 hours per fortnight) at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, delivering evidence-based psychological care within a supportive multidisciplinary acute mental health team while contributing to service improvement, education and clinical excellence.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Senior Psychologist within the Adult Acute Inpatient Mental Health Unit, you'll provide high-quality psychological assessment and intervention for consumers experiencing acute mental illness while working alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team. You'll also play an important role in developing services, supporting colleagues and driving continuous improvement by:

• Delivering evidence-based psychological assessment, intervention and treatment within an acute inpatient setting.
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support patient-centred care and recovery planning.
• Providing clinical supervision, education and support to junior psychologists, students and Allied Health Assistants.
• Contributing to service development, quality improvement and research initiatives.
• Supporting discharge planning and maintaining strong partnerships with community services.
• Applying advanced clinical judgement to manage complex presentations within a fast-paced environment.

About you:

You are an experienced Psychologist who enjoys working collaboratively and is passionate about delivering high-quality mental health care. You'll bring:

• General registration with AHPRA as a Psychologist (with relevant accredited Psychology qualifications).
• Demonstrated experience providing psychological services within acute or complex mental health settings.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills when managing complex consumer presentations.
• Experience providing supervision, mentoring or education to clinicians, students or support staff.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous improvement and delivering compassionate, recovery-oriented care.

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What we can offer you:

• Work alongside experienced multidisciplinary professionals in a highly respected acute mental health service.
• Opportunities to contribute to research, quality improvement and service innovation.
• Ongoing professional development, supervision and career growth opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements that support work-life balance where operationally possible.
• 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.

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS07687227_Role Description (PDF)