Address- Ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based services for our young people.
- Better connect hospital and community-based Refugee Health Services
VCID No. 896928
We currently have a 0.6 FTE position available for 6 months fixed term; with possibility of extension and permanency. This position has clinic hours Monday and Wednesday with another day negotiable, with flexibility.
About Our Team:
Based at Perth Children’s Hospital, the Child and Adolescent Health ServicesRefugee Health Service (CAHS RHS) provides a state-wide service to recently resettled children, adolescents and families from refugee-like backgrounds. We offer integrated support through tertiary and community streams to help families integrate into the local Western Australian community, empowering transition over time into mainstream Health Services.
The CAHS RHS is specifically designed for families facing language barriers, low health literacy, or socioeconomic challenges, focusing on building resilience and enhancing resettlement and health outcomes.
Our Clinical Psychologists work within a trauma-informed, culturally safe, and family-centred framework, conducting assessments, interventions, and consultations. They also engage in education, training, and research to improve the emotional, behavioural, psychological, and social outcomes for our patients.
Our offerings include home and school visits, multidisciplinary outpatient clinics, inpatient consultations at Perth Children’s Hospital, case conferences, and urgent assessments for new arrivals with specific health needs. We also facilitate connections to broader Health Services across Western Australia.
Position Profile
We are currently seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our team on a part-time basis and apply significant experience and understanding of complex mental health, psychological and developmental difficulties, and disorders to help address the specific health needs and trauma impacts faced by our young patients and their families.
Within the CAHS RHS team, you will work closely with a diverse range of health professionals including specialist medical staff, nurses, allied health specialists, dental staff, School of Special Educational Needs liaison teachers, interpreters, and the Community Refugee Health Team (CRHT).
Your responsibilities will include:
- Provide culturally responsive, trauma-informed, specialised clinical psychology assessments and interventions for infants, children, young people and families with complex mental health, psychological and neurodevelopmental and other disability-related difficulties, and disorders.
- Working with the multidisciplinary team in undertaking assessments and development of integrated care plans, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based clinical care that is responsive to the needs of our patients.
- Working with interpreters and translation services to ensure culturally safe, high-quality care for patients and families.
- Engaging in advocacy and interagency activities to improve access to services, develop referral pathways and enhance interagency collaboration.
- Coordinating care with community services and stakeholders, ensuring holistic, culturally safe, and trauma-informed services.
- Supervising students, clinical psychology registrars, and Grade 2 Clinical Psychologists and mentor and help plan and deliver clinical education to hospital and community-based Refugee Health staff and partners.
- Supporting or lead research and evaluation activities to establish baselines for service utilisation.
- Providing senior leadership in developing protocols, guidelines, and submissions for the RHS.
If you have a strong interest and experience in working with infants, children, young people and families of ethno-linguistically diverse backgrounds then this is the role for you. The ideal candidate will have direct experience in assessing neurodevelopmental disability and disorders and in differentiating between trauma and neurodevelopmental disability.
Please note a Master’s or Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and eligibility for full registration and endorsement in Clinical Psychology with the Psychology Board of Australia and accreditation as a Board approved supervisor is a requirement for this role.
Relevant experience in working with children and families will be highly regarded however applicants with relevant experience adult care will be provided the opportunity for support and education to translate your knowledge to a paediatric setting.
About CAHS:
The Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is proud to be the leading service provider for paediatric healthcare in Western Australia, as the State’s only dedicated Health Service for infants, children and young people. CAHS comprises four service areas: Neonatology, Community Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH).
With over 6500 employees, our services are delivered at PCH and King Edward Memorial Hospitals (KEMH), as well as across a network of more than 170 community clinics across the Perth metropolitan area.
For further information about the benefits of working for CAHS and our services please click here.
How to Apply:
We welcome your application via the ‘Apply for Job’ button at the bottom of this page. Your application should contain the following:
- A current resume which summarises your experience and how you are able to meet the position requirements.
- A letter/ statement of no more than 3 pages, responding to the selection criteria listed in the attached job description.
- The name, email and contact details of two referees who can be contacted to provide a confidential report (we will contact you and seek your confirmation prior to contacting your listed referees).
Selection Criteria: Please see the attached Job Description Form.
For Further Job-Related Information: We encourage you to contact Raylene Lewis, Clinical Psychologist on or 0413 644 ***.
Help in submitting your application: If you experience technical difficulties while applying online, please contact Employee Services on 13 44 77 for immediate assistance during business hours.
Eligibility: Australian citizenship or permanent residency is an essential requirement for applicants to be considered for permanent positions in the public sector.
Other Conditions: WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility. WA Health policies require applicants to undertake criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process. Referees may also be asked to comment on an applicant’s integrity and past demonstration of ethical behaviour.
WA Health is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of our service. We embrace diversity and strongly encourage applications from people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities. In addition, we are committed to growing our Aboriginal workforce as part of WA Health Aboriginal Workforce Policy. As a measure to achieve equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
Whilst this selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy, it may also be used to fill other "similar" vacancies throughout the Health Service. In addition to this, should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised vacancy, then the next most suitable applicant may also be selected from this process. Both of these options remain valid for a period of twelve (12) months from when the authorised delegate endorses the recruitment decision.
CAHS is committed to providing a workplace culture that is driven and shaped by our values of Compassion, Collaboration, Equity, Respect, Excellence and Accountability. During the selection process you may be assessed on your ability to fulfil the responsibilities of this position in accordance with these values.
Relocation benefits:
Not only do we offer a world class healthcare facility that welcomes the diversity and experience of international health care professionals, Perth offers a fantastic lifestyle in one of the sunniest cities in the world.
For Assistance including any adjustment needed to accommodate a disability and confidential enquiries – please contact the Strategic Talent Acquisition Recruitment Team (START) service via email: ***************@health.wa.gov.au.
Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions on, or after, 4:00pm on the closing date will not be accepted.
LATE OR EMAIL APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
