Mental Health Clinical Educator

**Clinical** P**sychology Educator Grade 4, part time permanent**

**An exciting opportunity to support **clinical p**sychology education in a tertiary teaching hospital**

***Work within a highly supportive and expert team**

**Excellent benefits including salary packaging and flexible working arrangements available**

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

**About Mental Health Division Psychology**

The Mental Health Division provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers throughout Victoria. Services are located across Austin Health campuses and in the community.

The Mental Health Division incorporates four program areas:

- Triage, Assessment and Planning Service,
- Adult Mental Health Services,
- Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Services, and
- Mental Health Specialty Services.

All mental health services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery oriented practice and supported decision making. This approach to consumer wellbeing builds on the strengths of the individual working in partnership with their treating team. It encompasses the principles of self
- determination and individualised treatment and care.

The Mental Health Psychology team consists of over 70 Psychologists The Mental Health Psychology is a supportive, collaborative team that prioritises excellence of clinical care for all our consumers.The Mental Health Department provides services on all three campuses of Austin Health and across the full spectrum of care, including acute, subacute and ambulatory/outpatients.

**About this role**

This exciting role offers an exciting opportunity for a senior clinical psychologist to join our growing psychology education team to support the planning, development and implementation of clinical education for neuropsychologists at Austin Mental Health. The position will support supervision, training, education and professional development of students, registrars, early career clinicians and more senior staff. The Clinical Psychology Educator may oversee extensive post-graduate student placements, University relationships and Graduate and Registrar programs. In addition, the Clinical Psychology Educator will work collaboratively with other educators at Austin Health to support multidisciplinary and interprofessional education. This is a permanent, part time position.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will:

- **Have current registration as a psychologist with AHPRA and endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist**
- **Hold supervisor endorsement with the Psychology Board of Australia**
- **Have a minimum of 8 years of experience as a Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience working within hospital or health systems**
- **Have **demonstrated** **capacity** to develop and deliver clinical education programs**
- **Have **demonstrated** experience with supervision of psychologists**
- **High level communication skills including the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation**

**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:

- **$11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, **meals** and holiday accommodation**
- **A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and **special offers** on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program**
- **Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities**
- **Five weeks annual leave, plus **purchased** leave options**
- **Flexible, hybrid working arrangements**Inclusion at Austin**

**Work with us