Lead transformative psychological care for people living with chronic disease within a dynamic, community-based multidisciplinary team.

Join Metro South Health as a Senior Psychologist (HP4) and use your clinical expertise, leadership capability and passion for service improvement to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care that enhances patient outcomes and strengthens integrated chronic disease services.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Psychologist within the Chronic Disease Bayside team, you will deliver high-quality, evidence-based psychological services to adults living with complex chronic disease, while contributing to service development, supervision and quality improvement initiatives.

• Manage a clinical caseload providing assessment, brief intervention, and evaluation within a multidisciplinary chronic disease team.
• Deliver health-oriented psychological care across community, outpatient, inpatient, home and telehealth settings, with a strong focus on hospital avoidance and continuity of care.
• Provide supervision, clinical guidance and training to HP3 clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.
• Contribute to service improvement, research, outcome monitoring and the development of evidence-based clinical practices and protocols.

About you:

We are seeking a motivated and collaborative Senior Psychologist who demonstrates clinical excellence, strong professional judgement and a commitment to person-centred care within complex healthcare environments.

• Demonstrated expertise in delivering psychological services to consumers living with chronic disease in community or health settings.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams and provide high-level clinical advice.
• Proven ability to prioritise workload demands, apply autonomous clinical decision-making and deliver timely assessment, intervention and discharge planning.
• Experience or capability in supervision, service development, and initiating or evaluating quality improvement activities.

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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.

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)
  
  MS05676717 (PDF)