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Psychologist Senior - Adult Mental Health
Cleveland
Senior opportunity supporting community mental health
Join the Adult Community Bayside Team as a Senior Psychologist in a temporary part-time role (60.8 hrs/fortnight for 6 months). You’ll deliver high-quality psychological care, contribute to clinical leadership and support service improvement within a collaborative Adult Mental Health team.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | HP4 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South,Brisbane - East |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS1267159 |
| Closing date | 23-Dec-2025 |
| Job duration | 6 months, 60.80 hours per fortnight |
| Contact person | Sheena Peck |
| Contact details | (07) 3825 6146 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
In this senior position, you will deliver advanced psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation to adults experiencing severe and complex mental health concerns. Working within an interprofessional team, you will act as a clinical reference point, support evidence-based practice, supervise junior clinicians and contribute to service development and quality initiatives.
You will:
- Deliver evidence-based psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation
- Manage complex caseloads and apply advanced clinical judgement with increasing autonomy
- Act as a clinical reference point for the Adult Community Bayside Team
- Develop and review evidence-based clinical practices, protocols and service improvements
- Provide supervision and training to HP3 clinicians, students and AHAs
About you:
You are an experienced and adaptable clinician with strong skills in adult mental health care. You communicate effectively, prioritise complex workloads and contribute meaningfully to team-based service delivery.
You will bring:
- High-level psychology knowledge and capability in adult mental health settings
- Strong communication, negotiation and conflict-resolution skills
- Ability to manage complex presentations, prioritise care needs and support discharge planning
- Experience supervising students and junior practitioners
- Commitment to recovery-oriented, person-centred and evidence-based practice
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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:
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 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.
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