The Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services are looking for a Psychologist to join their team. Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services are committed to our tripartite model of ensuring clinical excellence and education. With our exciting partnership with Diamantina Health Partners, Queensland’s first academic health science centre, we are constantly exploring opportunities that will enable staff at all levels to engage in research, participate in conferences and work towards higher qualifications that their application of skills will ensure better outcomes for our consumers, carers, families and the community.
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
- Contribute to development to of clinical practices, procedures and protocols within the psychology department with the support of senior staff.
- Commit to patient safety and quality in the delivery of health care by actively participating in safety and quality practices.
- Ensure patients and other staff are treated fairly and with mutual respect and understanding, regardless of cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
- Provide safe, patient-centred and compassionate care considering each patient's psychological, social, emotional, spiritual and physical care.
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 ).