Your new role:

Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives following an acquired brain injury? Join the Acquired Brain Injury Outreach Service (ABIOS) and use your expertise in clinical psychology and/or neuropsychology to support adults with moderate to severe acquired brain injury (ABI), their families and support networks.

In this senior role, you will deliver evidence-based community rehabilitation and clinical case management, working collaboratively with an experienced interprofessional team to promote independence, recovery and meaningful community participation. You will also contribute to clinical leadership, staff development and service improvement initiatives that enhance the quality of care.

In this role, you will:

Deliver specialist clinical psychology and/or neuropsychology assessment, intervention and rehabilitation services for adults with ABI in a community setting.

Coordinate clinical case management, rehabilitation planning and discharge processes to support positive outcomes and successful community reintegration.

Provide expert clinical advice and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, families, carers and community organisations to deliver person-centred care.

Support the development of evidence-based clinical practices, policies and protocols to enhance service delivery.

Provide clinical supervision, education and mentoring to less experienced clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.

Initiate and contribute to quality improvement, research and service development activities that strengthen ABI rehabilitation outcomes.

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated clinical psychologist and/or clinical neuropsychologist with a strong commitment to supporting people living with acquired brain injury. You bring advanced clinical knowledge, sound professional judgement and the ability to manage complex rehabilitation needs while working collaboratively with clients, families and multidisciplinary teams.

You are also passionate about sharing your expertise, supporting the development of other clinicians and identifying opportunities to improve services and patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

Advanced knowledge and skills in clinical psychology and/or neuropsychology, particularly in ABI rehabilitation and clinical case management.

Strong clinical reasoning, assessment and intervention skills, with the ability to prioritise complex caseloads and coordinate effective rehabilitation and discharge planning.

Highly developed communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, including the ability to provide clinical advice, navigate challenging situations and build effective stakeholder relationships.

Demonstrated leadership capability, including the ability to supervise, mentor and support less experienced practitioners and students.

Experience contributing to evidence-based practice, clinical education, research or service improvement initiatives.

A commitment to safe, compassionate, culturally respectful and person-centred care.

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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.

About us:

The Division of Allied Health and Rehabilitation provides high quality, strong person-centred, evidence based, multi-disciplinary clinical, education and research services across the continuum of patient care. The Division also has the key function of leading First Nations Health and Outpatient Reform and Governance.

Rehabilitation services consist of inpatient, outpatient and community rehabilitation and persistent pain services for people with acquired brain injury (ABI), amputation, persistent pain, spinal cord injury (SCI) and other disabilities.

Allied Health modalities support all services across the hospital and wider community. These services aim to improve patient outcomes focusing on supporting self-management and independence, improving functional outcomes and rehabilitation and reducing admissions and length of stay.

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 better together.