Lead Mental Health Care That Changes Lives!

Join our Adult Community Mental Health Team as a Permanent Full-Time Senior Psychologist, where you'll deliver high-quality, evidence-based psychological care while providing leadership, supervision, and service improvement initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of consumers while working within a collaborative multidisciplinary team committed to recovery-focused care.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Senior Psychologist, you'll play a key role in delivering advanced psychological services within the Adult Community Mental Health Team. Working as part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you'll provide expert assessment, intervention and case management for consumers with complex mental health needs while supporting service excellence and continuous improvement.

In this role you will:

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based psychology services, including assessment, intervention, case management and recovery-focused care.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and mentoring to junior psychologists, students and Allied Health Assistants.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and research initiatives that enhance consumer outcomes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and community partners to support coordinated, patient-centred care and hospital avoidance.

About you:

You're an experienced and compassionate psychologist who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about delivering exceptional mental health care. You bring advanced clinical skills, strong leadership capabilities and a commitment to evidence-based practice.

You will bring:

• General registration as a Psychologist with AHPRA (Clinical Psychology endorsement and Board-approved Supervisor status highly regarded).
• Extensive experience delivering psychological services within adult community mental health settings.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to mentor and support others.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, evidence-based practice and delivering person-centred, recovery-oriented care.

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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:

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.

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)
  
  MS08688411 Role Description (PDF)