Clinical Psychologist

• Deliver compassionate psychological care to patients and families
• Work in a leading hospital with a collaborative multidisciplinary team
• Access professional development and research opportunities

Provide expert psychological assessment and interventions to patients and families, shaping best practice in supportive and palliative care.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Clinical Psychologist

Remuneration: $113,617 - $138,482 per annum

Hours Per Week: 38 (Job Share may be considered for part time hours)

Location: Westmead Hospital

Where you'll be working

Join Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) at Westmead Hospital, one of Australia's most advanced healthcare facilities. You will be part of a team dedicated to improving quality of life for patients with life-limiting illnesses.

The WSLHD Supportive and Palliative Care Service is a made up of a group of specialist health professionals who are skilled, compassionate, hardworking, committed. We are Specialist physicians, and Specialist Nurses, ward and community nurses and Allied Health professionals and Aboriginal and Cultural Health Workers. These health professionals are joined by Pastoral Care colleagues and a vibrant and diverse Supportive and Palliative Care Volunteer Service to make up this highly functional Multidisciplinary Supportive and Palliative Care Team. Together we care for people and their families/carers who have complex symptomatology and/or End of Life care and bereavement support needs in the setting of life limiting illness. We undertake pre and post graduate teaching and research in this field. We also work with our colleagues in Specialist, General and Primary Health Care as well as staff of Residential Aged Care Faculties to support them and their patients and to improve their capacity to deliver timely and quality Supportive, Palliative and End of Care for all people in WSLHD living with life limiting illness. Our service operates across key WSLHD sites—Westmead, Mt Druitt, Auburn, and Blacktown Hospitals—delivering integrated, person-centred care through a collaborative and compassionate team approach.

We are offering an exciting new opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to provide psychosocial support across inpatient and ambulatory settings at Westmead Hospital. With a new purpose-built Palliative Care Unit set to open at Westmead in late 2026, this is a great time to join a forward-thinking team contributing to the future of palliative care in Western Sydney. Job Share will be considered.

What you'll be doing

As a Clinical Psychologist in Supportive and Palliative Care, you'll provide psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions for patients, families, and carers, while collaborating with specialist teams to deliver holistic care. Key responsibilities will be to:

• Conduct psychological assessments, case formulation, and therapeutic interventions
• Deliver individual, family, and group counselling, including bereavement support
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams and community organisations
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation and comply with health record standards
• Participate in supervision, education, and research activities to enhance service delivery

Ready to make a difference?

Join NSW Health and enjoy a career where your expertise transforms lives. Apply today and help us deliver care that matters. Submit online your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.

Essential Criteria:

• Qualification: Master's degree or Higher in Clinical Psychology
• Registration: Current general registration as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency AHPRA with relevant area of practice endorsement – Clinical Psychology

Selection Criteria:

• Demonstrated skills and experience in working with patients and carers, providing assessment, management planning and delivery of psychological services.
• Demonstrated experience in a wide range of psychological assessments and evidence based psychological treatments delivered on an individual and/or group basis.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and work with patients from differing socioeconomic and /or culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to achieve client outcomes and goals.
• High level of written clinical documentation skills with demonstrated competency in using computer-based applications including electronic health records.
• Demonstrated excellent time management and organisation skills to provide timely and appropriate services and meet workload expectations.
• Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff.

Requisition ID: REQ615089

Applications Close: 25th November 2025

Need more information?

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People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit

Westmead hospital car parking allocation model is changing. There is a waitlist for parking for new staff commencing at Westmead Hospital. This does not apply for staff with disability.

Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment you must hold current Australian work rights (I.E Australian citizen, permanent resident or NZ citizen with a current passport)

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