Senior Clinical Psychologist

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• Permanent part time - 22.8 hours per week (flexible)
• $108,00.00 base + salary packaging + super (pro-rata for part time) 
• Booboop Narrkwarren Nagarra-jarra–noun Centre in Macleod

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 Department

The Booboop Narrkwarren Nagarra-jarra–noun Centre is part of the Mental Health Division within Austin Health and is a newly established Service situated offsite from Austin Health in a purpose-built facility.  The SCFC is one of many programs within Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) and provides a specialised therapeutic residential service for children aged up to 12 years who have experienced adverse life events.

About the role 

The Senior Psychologist will integrate psychology knowledge and experience in how psychological abilities and skills impact children’s and families’ experiences, development, and functioning. The role will use this information to facilitate recovery and an improvement in child and family communication and connection.   

Working within a trauma informed, multidisciplinary team the Senior Psychologist is an integral part of the team, collaborating on groups, formulations, treatment, facilitating family therapy session, discharge planning, capacity building, program planning, quality improvement and service development.  They will be leaders in building and contributing to knowledge in their area of expertise. 

A regular day will see you:

• Contribute to the understanding of the child’s strengths and difficulties from a psychology perspective and provide recommendations to support co-and-self-regulation awareness and self-regulation strategies at an individual / group / family / staff / school level. 
• Support the understanding of cognitive processing and trauma related behaviours.  
• Provide psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions to children and families residing at the Centre. 
• Liaise with relevant community agencies, provide secondary consultation, training and promote the service to wider community  

About you 

If you are passionate about working with children and families and have knowledge and experience in the use of current theoretical approaches and best practice and enjoy being part of a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the development of shaping the future of an innovative child and family mental health team, we are keen for you to join us!

To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

• A high level of knowledge and practice in, the principles of recovery-orientated, trauma-informed, family-centred, and collaborative care and expertise in engaging children and their families within a range of settings. 

• High quality, evidence-based clinical assessment, risk formulation and treatment at an individual or systems level as indicated by clinical need.

• Ability to provide secondary consultation to families, and to primary and other specialist service providers on behalf of the team (at a senior clinician level). 

• Leadership skills including the provision of coaching, mentoring and the provision of some supervisory functions to other team members. 

• Willingness and ability to work flexibly outside business hours. 

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, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation. 
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program. 
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options. 
• Mentoring and career development opportunities. 

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. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. 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, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Christine Denton at Christine.Denton@austin.org.au

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

Application closing date: Monday 21 July 2025