Senior Psychologist | Full-Time Temporary

Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 (up to $110,398 on achieving a personal upgrade) plus superannuation
Position No: 600668 - 02GVF
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 26 March 2024
Contact Officer: Karen Dell on **********@act.gov.au or (02) 6201 6***

What can we offer you: 

• City living without the traffic – click her to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• 11.5% Superannuation.

About the role:

Psychology within Allied Health, North Canberra Hospital, provides evidence based, flexible and person-centred care to the acute adult and older persons mental health inpatient units. Our psychologists work closely with patients, carers, referrers, other health professionals and multidisciplinary teams to achieve safe, high quality patient care.

Psychologists play a key role in the multidisciplinary management of patients across the care continuum. This position works in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to deliver services, supporting patient flow and maximising patient outcomes.

This role will support education /professional growth of junior psychologists, social workers and students. Professional supervision and professional development is provided through team structures, supervision support, competency based assessments and professional development opportunities.

Under limited direction of the Director of Social Work and Psychology you will perform psychology duties at North Canberra Hospital. You may also be required to provide outreach services to Clare Holland House You will:

• Provide a high level of appropriate skilled clinical assessments and psychological services including individual and group work to consumers and carers.
• Practice in accordance with the professional body’s code of conduct, practice standards and organisational guidelines and legislative requirements.
• Exercise independent professional judgement in solving problems and managing cases where principles, procedures and techniques require expansion, adaptation or modification.
• Actively participate in team meetings, complete clinical and administrative data collection and case records to a consistent high standard.
• Actively contribute to the implementation of clinical governance activity, quality improvement projects, research programs and health promotion in areas relevant to the service and professional practice.
• Provide professional primary supervision and/or training to other staff and students as directed. Participate in supervision, continuing professional development and performance management.
• Under professional supervision, participate in and/or implement and coordinate research programs in relevant areas of service delivery, and initiate and coordinate quality improvement activities in areas of speciality.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

About you:

North Canberra Hospital is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Mandatory

• Relevant Tertiary qualifications.
• Registration with the Psychology Board of Australia under AHPRA.
• Applicants must have a minimum of 3 years (ideal 5 years) post-qualification experience.

CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies.

• The successful applicant will be required to work shutdown.
• CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies.

Highly Desirable 

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

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Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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