Senior Clinical Psychologist

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• Senior Clinical Psychologist- Central Youth Community Team, Austin Health ICYMHS 

• Fixed Term Part time (30.4 hours per week) (10/06/2025- 09/06/2026) Parental Leave Backfill

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 statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Central Youth Community Team

The Central Youth Community Team (CYCT) is one of several community outpatient teams within the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). It is a multi-disciplinary team that offers individual and group assessment, treatment, consultations, and a clinical case management service to young people with a variety of complex and severe mental illnesses and/or disorders.  

CYCT primarily provides services to young people aged 12-25 in the ICYMHS catchment areas of Banyule and Nillumbik. The service currently operates within business hours, with a view to expand operating hours in the future to improve accessibility in line with Royal Commission recommendations. 

About the role 

This is a 12-month fixed-term part time parental leave backfill contract position. 

The Senior Clinical Psychologist provides high quality, expert clinical care and case management to children, young people and their families referred to CYCT, as allocated by the Team Manager.  

As a senior member of the team and ICYMHS, this role will assist and support the Team Leader/Consultants in their leadership responsibilities. The role holder will actively model positive behaviours in line with organisational values to support a healthy, productive and innovative team/ICYMHS culture that are concerned with health, wellbeing and safety for consumers, carers, communities and staff. 

The role will work collaboratively with the broader Mental Health staff and teams. Features of the role also include the provision of high-quality professional supervision and contributions to staff learning, development and research/evaluation. Additional support from the Psychology Discipline Senior role will be provided for professional governance purposes. 

About you 

You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work.  You'll have strong organisational and time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management. 

To be successful in this role you will bring with you/have: 

• A minimum of a Masters in Clinical Psychology, with current registration and endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist with AHPRA, along with registration with AHPRA as a Board Approved Supervisor, and supervisory experience, and at least 5 years clinical experience 
• Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual, outreach and carer-focused clinical services 
• Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective 
• Experience in developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems 

A career with Austin Health we foster a culture that celebrates and respects each and every person 

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 benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
• 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 at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists
• Employees and their direct family members can receive free professional, confidential counselling through the Austin Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Mindfulness meditation classes are available for employees at all three main hospital sites. 
• A commitment to assist with career development opportunities 
• Ongoing clinical support with individualised professional development plans 

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 the 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, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach at Rowan.CHIPCHASE@austin.org.au.

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

Application closing date: 18 May 2025