Psychology Clinical Educator - Early Career GR4

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• An exciting opportunity for a Grade 4 to support clinical psychology education in a tertiary teaching hospital working within a highly supportive and expert team
• Part time (15.20 hours per week), 12-month parental leave cover
• Excellent benefits including salary packaging and flexible working arrangements available

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About Mental Health Division Psychology

The Mental Health Division provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers throughout Victoria. Services are located across Austin Health campuses and in the community.  

The Mental Health Division incorporates three program areas:  

• Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Services,
• Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Services, and
• Mental Health Specialty Services.

All mental health services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery-oriented practice and supported decision making. This approach to consumer wellbeing builds on the strengths of the individual working in partnership with their treating team. It encompasses the principles of self- determination and individualised treatment and care.

The Mental Health Psychology team consists of over 80 Psychologists. The Mental Health Psychology team is a supportive, collaborative team that prioritises excellence of clinical care for all our consumers. The Mental Health Department provides services on all three campuses of Austin Health and across the full spectrum of care, including acute, subacute and ambulatory/outpatients.

About this role

This exciting role offers an exciting opportunity for a senior clinical psychologist to join our growing psychology education team to support the planning, development and implementation of clinical education for Early Career Psychologists at Austin Mental Health.

The position will support supervision, training, education and professional development of students, graduate psychologists, early career clinicians and more senior staff. The Clinical Psychology Educator may oversee extensive post-graduate student placements, University relationships and Graduate and Registrar programs. In addition, the Clinical Psychology Educator will work collaboratively with other educators at Austin Health to support multidisciplinary and interprofessional education. This is a fixed term, part time position. 

About you

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have current registration as a psychologist with AHPRA and endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist
• Hold supervisor endorsement with the Psychology Board of Australia
• Have a minimum of 8 years of experience as a Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience working within hospital or health systems
• Have demonstrated capacity to develop and deliver clinical education programs
• Have demonstrated experience with supervision of psychologists
• High level communication skills including the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day.  Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
• Mentoring and career development opportunities
• Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or have questions about this opportunity, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Jo Peters, Discipline Senior Psychologist at Joanne.Peters@austin.org.au

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: 2 February 2025