Psychology Manager

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Medical, Nursing

Reference: 24789

**Psychology Manager - Women’s Mental Health Service**

**Ongoing Position - 30.40 Hours per week**
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The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Women’s Mental Health Service provides mental health services to the Women’s Hospital at Parkville. Major areas of activity are in the domains of clinical work, service development and leadership of womens’ mental health frameworks, along with education and training. Clinical services cover each of the hospital’s clinical streams, i.e. maternity services, gynaecology, women’s cancer, and neonatal service

**Your contribution**

The Psychology Manager is a leadership role at the Women’s responsible for leading the Women’s Mental Health Psychology Team. In partnership with the Head of Psychiatry, the Psychology Manager will ensure the Mental Health Service delivers high quality care to women that meets the needs of women who are inpatients or outpatients of The Women’s, and have mental health challenges. These women may be connected with maternity, oncology, gynaecology, social work, sexual assault services or the women’s drug and alcohol service. The manager will manage and develop the team in consultation with the Director Social Model of Health and liaise with key internal and external stakeholders including precinct partners. Maintaining clear partnerships with the teams within the Social Model of Health and the maternity, neonatal and women’s health teams is a priority for the role.

The manager will be required to maintain an awareness of up to date evidence based practices and changes in the health and government landscape to ensure that the mental health team is continuing to adapt in the provision of high quality care and service. Further, this role will continue to remain aware of broader systemic changes within the mental health sector that may provide opportunities for service enhancement, particularly those stemming from recommendations from the Royal Commission into Mental Health.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:
Leadership/ Strategic Development
- Identify and develop long and short term strategic and operational goals for the team and service.
- In collaboration with the Director, provide leadership, support and direction to the development and improvement of the team and service.
- Ensure that all staff are supported to work professionally, safely and effectively, in accordance with the Women’s evidence-based guidelines, and relevant professional standards.
- Provide a visible leadership presence across the team and service.
- Ensures strong partnerships are formed and maintained with peers within the Social Model for Health division.
- Develops strong links with leaders in all other areas of the Women’s.
- Provides strategic advice on the development of the team and service to the Director Social Model of Health.
- Supports research, teaching and training within the service and within the organisation.
- Represents the Women’s in relation to women’s mental health.
- Considers opportunities for service development and program enhancement.
- Accountable for ensuring adequate staffing with appropriately qualified and credentialed staff in accordance with legislative and industrial requirements.
- Accountable for ensuring all staff within the psychology team are aware of, and are operating in accordance with, their OH&S responsibilities in accordance with Hospital policy and legislation.
- Effective and responsible management of material, financial and human resources within the department.

Clinical Leadership
- Lead by example in the provision of high-quality evidence based clinical care delivered by a multi-disciplinary team to women accessing the clinical service.
- Promote and maintain an exemplary standard of clinical practice in the team. Provide supervision to registrars and other psychologists within the team.
- Ensure all consultations, treatment plans and other aspects of care delivered by the team are documented, to support ongoing care, communication and to meet medico-legal requirements.
- In partnership with the Head of Psychiatry, establish / develop treatment protocols, and clinical guidelines to promote and ensure best practice standards, and