Clinical Neuropsychology Registrar

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Fixed term - Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $40 - $50

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 1898

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- Start your career at Austin Health, working alongside a supportive and expert team of Neuropsychologists
- 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 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 the Psychology and Neuropsychology Department**

The Psychology Department is committed to promoting the highest levels of care for our patients. As a team based in General Health, we work with a range of medical specialists and allied health professionals in multidisciplinary teams across the hospital where our neuropsychology services are highly valued.

The Department leads and excels in research, teaching and the use of person-centred evidence-based practice. We provide services across the three main hospital sites and the full spectrum of care from acute inpatients to community settings.

**About this role**

This exciting two-year Clinical Neuropsychology Registrar program offers a unique opportunity to acquire skills and experience in a wide variety of clinical presentations and gain endorsement as a Clinical Neuropsychologist. Your supervision team consists of an expert and supportive team of Senior Clinical Neuropsychologists, including a dedicated Clinical Neuropsychology Educator.

You will rotate through a number of services, for example, acute inpatient, outpatient, subacute and rehabilitation settings and specialist services including neurology, neurosurgery, epilepsy, general medical and surgical units, aged-care, mental health and acquired brain injury. Registrars are provided with:

- Individual clinical supervision
- Peer group supervision tailored to early career development across clinical, professional & wellbeing domains
- Regular high-quality learning and connection opportunities with other psychologists and allied health professionals.

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

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

- A Masters or Doctoral degree in Clinical Neuropsychology and registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Psychology Board of Australia.
- Eligibility to commence, or have commenced, a Registrar program for Endorsement in Clinical Neuropsychology
- An interest in gaining experience working in a hospital setting across a range of different clinical areas
- High level interpersonal and communication skills

**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**

**Closing Date: 3 November 2024