Catherine’s House is Australia’s first integrated centre for perinatal mental health care and provides mental health treatment and support to new parents.

We have an exciting fixed-term, part-time position available (0.6 FTE) for an experienced Psychologist looking to join the team! In this role you will work across the inpatient mother-baby unit and the outpatient private day program. With one in five mums and up to one in ten fathers experiencing depression, anxiety and other mental health issues before or after the birth of a child, this new facility will triple the number of public beds in Queensland from 4 to 12 for families in need of perinatal mental health support.

Salary range: $61.81 - $66.48 (HP4) per hour plus 11.5% superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900  + access to many staff benefits! 

What you’ll be doing

As the Clinical Lead for the Perinatal Psychology team, you will provide high level of expertise in the assessment and treatment of perinatal women accessing our service. As part of the leadership team you will work closely with the team leader and the consultant psychiatrist within the outpatient setting to develop effective interventions for consumers and be involved in ongoing Quality Improvement Activities. You will deliver brief psychological interventions to pregnant women and new mothers and provide guidance and supervision to less experienced members of the team. Maintaining and enhancing relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders is a critical part of this role.

Typical tasks include:

• Independently undertake clinical practice within established clinical protocols to achieve patient focussed outcomes
• Provide sound clinical judgement to more complex cases referred to the Perinatal Psychology team
• Provide delegation, supervision, training and support to less experienced health practitioners, students, support staff and volunteers in the delivery of clinical services
• Contribute to the development of clinical practices, procedures and protocols within professional and multidisciplinary teams
• Ensuring key performance indicators are achieved within agreed timeframes
• Identify, develop and participate in quality and service improvement activities to continually improve clinical services and patient outcomes
• Actively participate in translating research into practice
• Actively participate in professional and multidisciplinary teams, and liaise with patients, their families/carers and external agencies to facilitate patient centred care
• Participate in continuing professional development activities to further develop clinical practice and expertise
• Contribute to the learning and development of the team through clinical education and clinical supervision

About you

We are searching for someone who is/has the following essential qualifications:

General registration as a Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) / Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and a current annual practising certificate.

Highly Desirable Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualifications in Clinical or Educational & Developmental Psychology.
• Working towards or attained PsyBA approved supervisor.
• Working towards or attained PsyBA area of practice endorsement in Clinical or Educational & Developmental Psychology

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Experience in provision of Psychology services, ideally in a perinatal mental health setting
• Demonstrated clinical practice and application of clinical judgement in the provision of high quality, evidence based, patient centred care
• Effective communication skills and demonstrated ablity to work co-operatively with profession and multi-disciplinary teams, patients and carers to achieve optimal outcomes
• Demonstrated ability or ability to rapidly acquire skills to identify, develop and participate in quality and service improvement activities that improve clinical services and patient outcomes and/or research

Why join us?

Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. #MAKEYOURMATERMOVE

• Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
• Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
• Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
• Discounts to local and national business/venues for Dining/Retail/Travel & Accommodation/Other
• Unlimited access to a multitude of discounted fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
• Access to on-site, discounted parking
• Discounted food and beverage at various campus cafés and coffee venues

Applications close on Friday the 27^th of September 2024. Please note, we may contact applications prior to the closing date, please do not hesitate to APPLY NOW!

Mater is committed to the wellbeing of their staff, and it is underpinned by our flexible and remote working policies.

Please Note: We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies at this time and kindly request no contact is made. Only direct applications will be considered.