Psychologist - Senior

Your new role:

As a Senior Psychologist within the North Continuing Care Team (Adult Community Mental Health), you'll provide advanced clinical services and leadership within a collaborative, recovery-focused environment. You'll be part of a skilled and supportive team, delivering impactful care to consumers and driving improvements in psychological service delivery by:

• Delivering high-quality, evidence-based psychological assessments, interventions, and evaluations within a multidisciplinary framework.
• Providing supervision, mentoring, and clinical support to less experienced clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants.
• Contributing to clinical education, service development, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Collaborating effectively with consumers, carers, and interprofessional teams to achieve recovery-oriented outcomes.
• Leading and participating in service improvement, policy development, and research initiatives.

About you:

To succeed in this role, you'll bring a blend of advanced clinical skills, professional leadership, and compassion for individuals living with mental health challenges. You will demonstrate this through:

• Extensive experience delivering psychological services to adults with complex mental health needs.
• Proven ability to manage complex caseloads and apply independent clinical judgement in decision-making.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to build effective relationships with consumers, carers, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supervising and supporting early-career clinicians and students.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous learning, and quality improvement.
• Eligibility for registration with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA), with relevant postgraduate qualifications and endorsement (if applicable).

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What we can offer you:

• A supportive, inclusive, and values-driven workplace where your contribution truly matters.
• Ongoing supervision, mentorship, and opportunities for career advancement.
• Access to diverse and meaningful professional development programs.
• Flexible working arrangements supporting work–life balance.
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.