pimhs senior clinical psychologist

• Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Kaurna Land
• Classification/Salary - AHP3 - $108,347.00 to $116, % Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Part Time - Ongoing Permanent – 2 Part Time Positions Available
• (1) PIMHEC - Glenside 0.2FTE Mi-DBT Group therapy (Tuesdays non-negotiable) and located over 2 sites: AM at a metropolitan Children's Centre, currently Avenues College Children's Centre at Windsor Gardens and PM at PIMHEC, Glenside
• (2) PIMHS-Liaison, WCH North Adelaide 0.4FTE (ideal days of work Tuesdays and Thursdays).

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS/PIMHSteam as a Senior Psychologist, where you will be responsible for:

• Providing advanced psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention to mothers, infants, and families experiencing complex perinatal mental health issues
• Leading clinical care planning and decision-making within a multidisciplinary team in an acute inpatient setting
• Offering clinical and professional supervision to psychology staff and contributing to staff development
• Collaborating with allied health, nursing, medical, and service leaders to ensure high-quality, integrated care
• Contributing to service development, planning, and evaluation in line with WCHN values and national standards
• Driving quality improvement, safety initiatives, and outcome monitoring across the service
• Supporting interagency coordination and advocating for consumer psychological needs in service delivery

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• a Master's degree in Clinical or Health Psychology (or equivalent), with general registration, endorsement in clinical and/or health psychology, and approved supervisor status (primary and secondary) with the Psychology Board of Australia.
• Communicate and work with individuals, other professionals, facilitate group functions and work as a team member.
• Work with a high degree of responsibility with limited supervision and direction
• Extensive clinical experience in the delivery of mental health psychology services to people in the perinatal period and infants with mental health issues, with advanced clinical experience in the delivery of a range of evidence based clinical modalities relevant to perinatal and infant mental health.
• Extensive experience in the area of supervision of clinical staff in a mental health setting

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year. Click here more information
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Free public transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital workers to and from the Women's and Children's Hospital. Note: Does not apply to network community sites.
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Women's & Children's Health Network is the state's leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia.  We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia's women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Enquiries

Tina Bull

Position: Administration Coordinator

Phone: Mon-Thurs)

E-mail:

Application Closing Date: Tuesday 4 November :55pm

Useful Links

PIMHS-L Senior Psychologist Role-Description

PIMHEC Senior Psychologist Role-Description

HMH Inpatient psychologist Role-Description