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Join Metro South Health as a Senior Neuropsychologist and make a meaningful difference in spinal injury rehabilitation.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Neuropsychologist in the Spinal Injuries Unit, you will deliver evidence-based neuropsychology services to support patients throughout their spinal injury rehabilitation journey. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will apply advanced clinical judgement, contribute specialist advice and help drive high-quality, patient-centred care. You will:

• Deliver complex psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation within spinal injury rehabilitation.
• Provide specialist clinical advice and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support patient outcomes and discharge planning.
• Supervise and mentor junior clinicians, students and support staff, contributing to clinical education.
• Lead and contribute to service improvement, research and evidence-based clinical practice initiatives.

About you:

You are an experienced psychologist with strong neuropsychological expertise, sound clinical judgement and a passion for supporting people through complex rehabilitation. You bring a collaborative approach, a commitment to professional development and the confidence to contribute to clinical leadership and service excellence. You will have:

• Demonstrated high-level clinical knowledge and skills, ideally in spinal injury rehabilitation and clinical neuropsychology.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to provide specialist advice and navigate complex team dynamics.
• Proven ability to supervise, train and support junior clinicians and students.
• Experience initiating, implementing and evaluating evidence-based initiatives to improve clinical practice and patient 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:

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.

• MS11695244 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)