Psychology Student Coordinator

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 57128

Drive the achievements of our post-graduate psychology clinical placement program within Victoria’s largest public health service.

**About Monash Health**

**About The Role**

Monash Health has a large post-graduate psychology clinical education program taking on clinical psychology, clinical neuro-psychology and educational and development post-graduate students from a number of key educator providers.

The Psychology Student Coordinator role:

- Supports the psychology leadership group, supervisors and the post-graduate students on placement
- Supports the Psychology Deputy Director in placement planning, liaising with education providers, data collection and maintenance
- Develops, implements and evaluates clinical placements
- Supports placement supervisors in developing post-graduate competencies
- Provides primary and/or secondary supervision to post-graduate students as required

**About You**

You are experienced, energetic and determined in whatever role you have undertaken. Your track record includes demonstrated success in the following areas:

- Psychological assessment, treatment, research and evaluation
- Supervision of staff and students
- Proven ability to develop and coordinate programs including education and training of staff and post-graduate students; and
- Previous experience in administration, program development, continuous improvement, and quality initiatives

You are highly motivated and thrive on the challenge of supporting and developing staff and post-graduate students to perform at their best every day. Naturally you have strong written and verbal communication skills, you are an active listener and possess well developed negotiation and influencing abilities that will be used in working with internal and external stakeholders. Postgraduate qualifications in education and supervision are strongly preferred.

What You Need:

- Current general registration as a psychologist with the Australian Health Professionals Regulation Authority (AHPRA)
- Has endorsement from the PBA in an Area of Practice;
- Hold supervisor endorsement with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA) for Registrar Supervision (primary and secondary) and Higher Degree supervision
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in the field of Psychology at a minimum P2 (or equivalent) level
- _ Post Graduate qualification in Health Professional Education (or equivalent_)_

**What We Offer**:

- Genuine career opportunity to influence and shape the clinical education of post-graduate students and staff including supervising psychologists
- Support, mentoring and development from a highly experienced and well regarded leadership team
- Satisfaction derived from leading and embedding change to enhance the clinical education offered to psychology staff and post-graduate students.
- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- mentorship & career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake further studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite subsidised staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.