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Form of workThe Division of Allied Health & Rehabilitation are looking for an Advanced Clinical Psychologist to join their Rehabilitation Engagement & Safety Team (REST). This unit provides specialised clinical and consultancy services within the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) - Spinal Injury Unit and Rehabilitation service.
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 the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) – Spinal Injury Unit (SIU) and Rehabilitation service. The position delivers advanced complex inpatient and carer/family distress and behavioural reactivity prevention and interventions, as well as multi-professional staff and system consultancy services to stakeholders/consumers within the Spinal Injury Unit and Rehabilitation Service to achieve excellence in patient care, education and research.
This includes:
- Demonstrating Advanced Clinical skills in the area of Psychology.
- Providing service wide Psychology clinical and professional advice on specialised clinical areas and service delivery models in the area of preventing and responding to patient/carer/family distress and behavioural reactivity. This includes via direct patient care, staff consultancy, and multi-professional education using evidence-based, evaluated processes. The role also provides advanced systems engagement and communication with relevant PAH & Metro South working groups and committees, including document and resource development and/or reviews.
- Providing professional leadership and responsibility for development of REST (Rehabilitation Engagement & Safety Team) clinical practices, procedures and protocols
- Applying advanced level independent professional judgment regarding the assessment and treatment planning of complex patients.
- Providing high quality clinical supervision to rehabilitation health professionals and allied health assistants to support effective and efficient service delivery of care.
- Leading innovative quality/service improvement activities and contribute to research of significant scope and clinical importance to rehabilitation and/or psychology, seeking outcomes that influence standards of clinical practice and the delivery of services to meet local needs and influence broader organisational goals including publishing/presenting relevant work broadly.
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 ).
