AddressMetro South Addiction and Mental Health Service are looking for an Advanced Psychologist to join their team. The Bayside Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) is a dynamic and innovative team that provides specialised mental health care to children and young people under the age of 18 who experience severe and complex mental health difficulties, and where their needs cannot be met by other services. The position delivers advanced Psychological services to stakeholders/consumers within Bayside CYMHS to achieve excellence in patient care, education and research.
Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
The purpose of this position is to provide specialised clinical and consultancy services within Bayside Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS). The position delivers advanced Psychological services to stakeholders/consumers within Bayside CYMHS to achieve excellence in patient care, education and research.
This includes:
- Demonstrating advanced clinical skills in the area of Psychology.
- Providing service wide psychological clinical and professional advice on specialised clinical areas and service delivery models in the area of severe and complex mental health issues in a Child and Youth Mental Health setting. Including taking a lead role in skill development of less experienced staff.
- Delivering specialised psychological clinical and consultancy services to consumers with severe and complex mental health issues in a CYMHS setting) in accordance with accepted professional practices, legal and ethical requirements with a high degree of independence.
- Providing clinical advice and direction to a team of child and youth mental health clinicians to ensure effective service delivery and quality outcomes applying change management, conflict resolution and negotiation skills where necessary.
- Providing high quality clinical supervision to Mental Health Clinicians and allied health assistants to support effective and efficient service delivery of Child and Youth Mental Health Services.
Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).
