Service Manager - Psychology

Service Manager – Psychology

John Hunter Children's Hospital

About the role:

John Hunter Children’s Hospital is seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to lead a team of clinicians providing high-quality services to patients and families. This is a highly-skilled team, who have expertise in paediatric psychology, so your role would utilise your leadership and management skills to advocate for and support this team. Your guidance would allow impactful change to be implemented, shaping programs and guiding teams to enhance the well-being of patients and families!

In this role you will provide leadership to the team involving clinical support, people management, supervision and engagement in quality processes to ensure the delivery of quality services. Service delivery guidance and advice to Psychologists delivering services and high-quality care in JHCHs and community-based services and links with service to form part of holistic specialist multidisciplinary teams across a broad range of services.

Our Senior Clinical Psychologist provides an evidence-based psychological assessment, diagnosis and treatment to improve outcomes of patients and/or consumers and families/carers. The role will be actively involved in managing referral processes, reviewing service delivery and maintaining a clinical load.

Where you’ll be working: 

• Based in Newcastle, the John Hunter Children's Hospital provides a variety of services including complex medical, surgical, major trauma and neonatal care services for Northern NSW. Being one of three children's hospitals in the state, they will see nearly 25,000 children and young people present to the emergency department, have 9,000 admitted to hospital and perform over 100,000 occasions of service through outpatient clinics.
• In our tight-knit team, we all work closely together. We share our different skills and ideas, which helps us come up with new and better ways to help our patients. You would be working with other Allied health professionals, as well as nursing and medical colleagues within the John Hunter Children's Hospital to provide holistic care to your patients. In this role you will be supported by the Director of Allied Health for CYPFS and the Manager of Community and Allied Health. Support is also gained from the other Services Managers within the JHCH Allied Health Department.

Benefits: 

• Unique leadership opportunity.
• Chance to step-up and lead an expert team with additional responsibilities such as provision supervision, education and professional management.
• Work with a passionate interdisciplinary team member who actively contributes to a positive team culture.
• Working for a highly regarded public health facility, where supporting the local community is at the forefront of our business strategy.
• Career and professional development.
• Superannuation contributions 11%.
• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees).
• Four (4) weeks annual leave for temporary and permanent employees (pro-rata if part time).
•  Salary packaging - Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing.
•  Fitness Passport.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members.

Requirements:
Our successful candidate will possess the following:

• Completion of an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council accredited postgraduate clinical psychology qualification of no less than two years full time duration or recognised equivalent, displayed on the Psychology Board of Australia website.
• Generally registered as a clinical psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia with area of practice endorsement in clinical psychology with not less than 12 months full time equivalent on Year 5 of the Clinical Psychology pay scale.

Additional information:

• An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.
• This position is full time; however, part time/job share arrangements may also be considered.
• Previous candidates need not re-apply. 
• We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.

Need more information?

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For role related queries or questions contact Sinead Redman on *************@health.nsw.gov.au

Information for Applicants:

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Salary Packaging: is beneficial to most HNELHD employees and may increase your take-home pay! Salary package a range of personal expenses including novated motor vehicle leases, relocation expenses, and HECS/HELP debt. Find out more by contacting SalaryPackagingPLUS! via *********@salarypackagingplus.com.au or 1300 40 25 23.

HNE Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefits such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.

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