Senior Psychologist (Team Leader)

• Use your expertise to provide clinical support and leadership
• Provide mentoring and feedback on assessments to staff and contractors

We provide the assessment service for the Victorian Department of Education, conducting cognitive and language assessments for students who appear likely to have an intellectual developmental disorder or language disorder with high needs. Information from our assessments and reports is used to help inform educational planning for students and may be used to access funded support through the Program for Students with Disabilities or Disability Inclusion.

Benefits

• Work with a supportive team of dedicated and respectful professionals
• Further develop your clinical skills and expert knowledge and use these to support other psychologists and our admin team
• Further develop your ability to assess students with complex presentations; training in the use of nonverbal assessment tools will be provided
• Professional development fund to pursue your professional learning goals, plus regular in-house professional development and peer consultation sessions
• Flexible working arrangements
• Gender neutral paid parental leave of 12 weeks
• Five weeks annual leave after 3 years’ service
• Access to long service leave after 5 years’ service
• Extensive leave provisions including domestic abuse, community service, study leave
• Ability to purchase or cash out annual leave
• Education assistance and study leave
• Proven career development and promotion opportunities

The opportunity

As a Senior Psychologist in this role, you will:

• Work collaboratively with the team to manage workflow and meet the needs of the assessment service
• Provide support to Staff and Contractor Psychologists, in the form of mentoring, case discussion and feedback on reports
• Review referrals from schools to determine whether they are appropriate to proceed to assessment, and provide feedback and consultation to school staff around these decisions
• Complete a small number of assessments, determined by workflow and personal preference
• Mobile phone, laptop and assessment tools will be provided

About you

• Experience conducting standardised assessments: WPPSI-IV, WISC-V, WAIS-IV, Vineland-3
• Experience working with school aged children and adolescents
• Ability to provide constructive feedback to colleagues
• Strong assessment and report writing skills

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice Citation and be a recognised Disability Confident Company.

At MAX, we value diversity – in the backgrounds, ideas, work styles and perspectives of our team. We strongly encourage people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply.

We adhere to the National Principles for Child Safety and require all team members to be committed to child safety and well-being. Our induction and training will provide you with these principles, including having an understanding of children's developmental needs and culturally safe practices.

Next steps

If you have a passion for helping people please click "apply" to find out more about the role. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process for reasons of equal opportunity, please call a member of our Recruitment Team on 07 3727 1306 or email max.recruit@maxsolutions.com.au before you submit your application.