Your new Role:

This senior psychology role delivers high-quality, evidence-based mental health and wellbeing services to First Nations youth, their families and key stakeholders within the CCAWS interprofessional team. The position leads service excellence through clinical care, service development, quality improvement, and research activities. It is also responsible for monitoring outcomes, contributing to continuous improvement, and providing supervision, training and support to junior clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.

About You:

You will embody Metro South Health's values and bring a genuine commitment to joining our CCAWS team, contributing to our growth through your passion and expertise in delivering high-quality, evidence-based psychology and allied health services. You will: 

• Demonstrate high accountability and a supportive, engaging approach within a highly functioning interprofessional team.
• Apply comprehensive knowledge of best-practice clinical care to support First Nations youth, their families, and key stakeholders.
• Collaborate within a tight-knit interprofessional team, providing leadership, delegation, supervision, and mentorship to emerging clinicians and students.
• Communicate with excellence, building strong relationships and contributing to service development, quality improvement, research, and positive clinical outcomes.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Child & Youth Mental Health Services:

The Child and Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS) is the specialised child and youth mental health service within Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services. We provide a comprehensive response to the varying needs of infants, children and young people with mental health problems or mental disorders and their families/carers in the Logan-Beaudesert and Bayside community.

The Centre of Excellence (CoE) CYMHS team is a program working in partnership and collaboratively with the Centre of Excellence, to provide integrated and culturally safe mental health care.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Apply Here:  Senior Psychologist |   Brisbane—South | Queensland Health Careers