Professional Lead

**Job no**: 494549

**Work type**: Part - Time (Auto)

**Location**: Melbourne CBD, Various Locations

**Categories**: Psychologist

Position Description

**Professional Lead - Specialist Behaviour Support / Psychology**:
**Location**:Multiple Sites across Metropolitan Melbourne
**Vacancy Type**: Permanent - Part-Time (0.4 FTE)

**Job reference**:494549

**Salary Range**:Chief Grade 2 to Chief Grade 5: $114,258.03 - $153,360.65 (depends on experience) + superannuation + salary packaging ($15,900 per FBT year)

**An Allied Health role with Yooralla offers**:

- **Professional development opportunities** - including opportunities to further develop your clinical leadership / management skills, a generous professional development allowance and paid study leave. You will be working with the support of a large, multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary team of therapists.
- **A supportive employer who understands the need for work/life balance and flexibility** in your workplace (including flexibility in hours and location of work). Our allied health positions can be undertaken full-time or part-time, and we will support you to balance your lifestyle goals with providing excellent care to our staff and clients.
- **Administration and logístical support** - including administrative staff and team leaders to assist with intake, NDIS coordination and billing.
- **A competitive salary, including salary packaging, and generous paid leave entitlements** for personal, caring or parental purposes (15 days personal and/or carer’s leave and 12 week’s primary carer parental leave).

**About the Role**:
As a Professional Lead you will manage a complex and diverse team of therapists within your professional scope of practice and across your area of professional clinical expertise, providing professional leadership, clinical supervision, and operational management to staff within your discipline across multiple sites.

You will hold a small clinical caseload to ensure ongoing recency of practice, allocate professional specific allied health resources to meet demands and engage and lead effective change management strategies.

Demonstrate your experience and ability to effectively develop, implement and monitor clinical governance frameworks and practice principles across your discipline and within a transdisciplinary model.

Ability to clinically and operationally manage profession specific programs relevant to your scope of practice.

**About You**:
You’ll be an established, enthusiastic, and highly experienced Advanced and/or Specialist, Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner and/or Psychologist with appropriate tertiary qualifications and registration with the NDIS and within your discipline.

Knowledge of and commitment to the effective and meaningful engagement of clinicians in decision-making processes that foster positive client outcomes. Proven ability to lead and manage a team and individual performance within a service delivery environment, encouraging and empowering staff, with the ability to provide professional supervision and professional development to staff.

Demonstrated experience and proven ability to effectively identify, plan, organise and allocate resources (time, financial, human, material, and facilities) which relate to allied health service provision.

**Personal Skills and Attributes**:
**Passion and Dedication**: to improving the quality of life of people living with disability and to providing clinical governance to those working in your allied health profession.

**Effective communication skills**: nurturing and engaging staff both internal and external to AH Yooralla.

**Empathy and Compassion**: using empathetic communication skills with staff and clients.

**Problem solving skills**: critical, creative and analytical skills to effectively tackle issues as they arise.

**Adaptability and Flexibility**: crucial for professional growth and ensuring the delivery of quality allied health services.

**To be successful in this role, you will share **Yooralla’s values** and have**:

- International Police Check (if required)
- Working with Children Check
- NDIS Worker Screening Check
- Current driver's licence to drive in Australia and a willingness to travel across metropolitan Melbourne regions, as required
- AHPRA Registration (Psychology) and /or NDIS PBS registration (Advanced and/or Specialist)

Yooralla is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage people with disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to apply.

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**More information about working with Yooralla**:
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