Group Coordinator

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 64022

**Group Coordinator, Agile Psychological Medicine, Monash Health**
- Are you a psychologist with a keen interest in group-based treatment?
- Are you passionate about providing evidence-based treatment and using outcomes to inform best practice?
- Are you keen to be the inaugural group coordinator in an innovative public mental health clinic

If so, this position may be for you.

At Agile Psychological Medicine Clinics (aPM) we believe our community should have access to personalised, flexible, evidence-based therapeutic care in their interaction with public mental health services. We have a team of smart and dedicated psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists who are passionate about providing this care and we are looking for a psychologist to initiate, coordinate and co-facilitate our group treatment program.

**About Monash Health**

**What you will be doing**:

- Initiating, coordinating and co-facilitating (with other clinicians) a variety of group treatments.
- Provide evidence-based psychological treatment - make a difference to the lives of our clients by providing timely and flexible psychological therapies
- Routinely measure the outcomes of your work and have this inform your work going forward
- Be part of a strong and supportive clinical team where we support each other to do interesting and challenging work

**How you will be supported in your role**:

- This is a psychology-specific role and presents a fantastic opportunity to use and develop your psychology research skills within a very supportive team
- Psychology and Specialist Services at Monash Health offers regular professional supervision, peer support, and the opportunity for career development to all of our 200+ psychologists.
- We established Australia's first Psychology Registrar and Graduate Education Program to support our early career psychologists and to support senior psychologists to maintain PsyBA supervisor status.
- Additional benefits include five weeks annual leave (pro rata), paid professional development leave and a work environment that is extremely supportive of your ongoing development as a psychologist
- 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, and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**About You**:

- You are an accomplished psychologist with a passion for providing high quality psychology care.
- You are a flexible thinker with the capacity to self-manage
- You have experience delivering mental health interventions, with a particular interest in group interventions, and you are competent in one of more of the following: cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), interpersonal therapy (IPT), Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) or motivational interviewing (MI).
- You lead by example, thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and are truly passionate about delivering a high standard of evidence-based psychological treatment to all clients
- You are in interested in a psychology specific role in public mental health

**What You Need**:

- Current PsyBA registration
- Current driver’s license and Working with Children Check
- Australian working rights

**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.