Clinical Psychology Registrar

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Fixed term - Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $40 - $50

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 1899

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- Start your career at Austin Health, working alongside a wonderful team of Psychologists
- An exciting opportunity for a new graduate psychologist to commence their Registrar program in 2025.
- Work across multidisciplinary teams to provide psychological care to inpatients and outpatients
- Excellent staff benefits, including robust supervision, engaging professional development opportunities and salary packaging
- Part time, Fixed term rotation for 2 years

Austin Health is the major provider of state-wide tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About Psychology**

The Psychology Department promotes the highest level of care and psychological support for our patients. The department leads and excels in research, teaching and the use of person-centred evidence-based practice. As a team based in General Health, we work with a range of medical specialists and allied health professionals collaborating to achieve best possible patient outcomes. We are a dedicated team who value connection and collaboration and provide a supportive environment to learn and develop.

**About this role**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychology Registrar (Grade 2) to take up a varied and interesting clinical role working across two rotations in the oncology and inpatient rehabilitation wards.

This 2-year part-time, fixed term position is 19 hours (2.5 days) per week until January 2027.

A regular day will see you:

- Providing psychological interventions to outpatients receiving cancer care at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre and inpatients with a range of medical conditions undergoing subacute rehabilitation at the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.
- Adopt a flexible approach to clinical caseload management and the provision of care that might include individual and group programs.
- Work collaboratively within a broader multidisciplinary team to deliver psychological assessment and intervention to patients.

**About you**

To be successful in the role, you’ll bring with you:

- Masters or Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Psychology Board of Australia and endorsement (or working towards endorsement) as a Clinical Psychologist.
- An interest in working within multidisciplinary teams.
- An interest in gaining experience working within acute, subacute and rehabilitative general health clinical settings.
- An ability to conduct comprehensive psychological assessments and interventions with patients with health issues, including cancer and chronic medical conditions.
- High level interpersonal skills that promote teamwork and engagement.

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**

**Application closing date: 3 November 2024