Clinical Neuropsychology Registrar

**Reference Number**:1898**Category**:Allied Health**Department**:Psychology**_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