Advanced Clinical Lead Psychologist

SA Health - Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

Psychology, Counselling & Social Work (Healthcare & Medical)

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Mental Health – Elizabeth Vale

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate, enthusiastic and experienced Psychologist looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

You will be part of a growing Local Health Network (LHN) that provides an expanding suite of treatment modalities in contemporary, modern facilities. 

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Advanced Clinical Lead Psychologist within the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

The Advanced Clinical Lead Psychologist - Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) is responsible for the planning, provision, standards and management of a co-ordinated clinical psychology service within Perinatal Mental Health Service. This role facilitates a professionally competent contribution to the health of the community served.

The Advanced Clinical Lead Psychologist - PMH will have specialised training in perinatal mental health. The practitioner will see women with moderate to severe anxiety or depression who require more complex psychological treatment. They will also provide trauma counselling due to a past or recent birth experience. The Advanced Clinical Lead Psychologist will provide short to longer term therapy. Treatment can be offered as an individual or group therapy. The therapies will also focus on the mother-infant relationship and will be provided 1:1 or via group therapy.

Working in conjunction with other health professionals the Advanced Clinical Lead Psychologist optimises patient functional and health outcomes in this specialty area, ensuring the improved mental health outcomes for women, their infants and families.

As a highly skilled and competent clinician, you will ensure the delivery of quality services and provides clinical expertise and consultancy in the area of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health within the NALHN Mental Health Services, providing support and supervision to less experienced staff. In this role you will be expected to advance the clinical practice of Psychology and make a significant contribution towards the development and achievement of the strategic directions of the agency and the region and/or SA Health Local Health Network, SA Health Statewide Service and which may extend to the State or the Nation.

To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree (Master’s Degree in Psychology) or equivalent qualification recognised by the PsyBA. You must hold general registration with PsyBA and be endorsed in an Area of Practice Endorsement consistent with the requirements of the role. You must hold approved supervisor status with the PsyBA at all levels of supervision (primary and secondary).

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Check(s)

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job Ref: 870917

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.

SA Health is committed to protecting and improving the health of all South Australians by providing leadership in health reform, public health services, health and medical research, policy development and planning, with an increased focus on well being, illness prevention, early intervention and quality care.

SA Health is the brand name for the health portfolio of services and agencies responsible to our Ministers, the Minister for Health and Minister for Mental Health & Substance Abuse and the Minister for Ageing.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.

SA Health is committed to protecting and improving the health of all South Australians by providing leadership in health reform, public health services, health and medical research, policy development and planning, with an increased focus on well being, illness prevention, early intervention and quality care.

SA Health is the brand name for the health portfolio of services and agencies responsible to our Ministers, the Minister for Health and Minister for Mental Health & Substance Abuse and the Minister for Ageing.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.

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