Senior Psychologist / Case Manager

Lead Clinical Excellence in Community Mental Health!

Come and be part the Princess Alexandra Hospital Community Care Team South and provide senior psychology services to adults experiencing severe and complex mental health challenges. Bring your clinical expertise, leadership and passion for service improvement to a supportive multidisciplinary team.

As a Senior Psychologist / Case Manager, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based psychology services to adults experiencing severe and complex mental health problems within the Princess Alexandra Hospital Community Care Team South. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will use your advanced clinical knowledge and judgement to support positive consumer outcomes while contributing to clinical leadership, education and service improvement.

• Deliver comprehensive assessment, intervention, case management and evaluation for consumers with complex mental health needs.
• Provide clinical leadership, advice, supervision and support to less experienced clinicians, students and support staff.
• Work collaboratively with consumers, carers, multidisciplinary colleagues and community services to support person-centred care, effective handover and discharge planning.
• Lead and contribute to quality improvement, research, clinical education and the development of evidence-based practices.

We are looking for an experienced and passionate psychology professional who can confidently manage complex clinical presentations and contribute to the ongoing development of psychology and multidisciplinary services.

• Demonstrated high-level clinical knowledge and expertise in delivering psychology services within a complex community mental health environment.
• Strong communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills, with the ability to provide clinical advice and manage complex professional situations.
• Proven ability to prioritise and manage a complex workload, including clinical assessment, intervention, case management and discharge planning.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including providing supervision, education and support to developing clinicians and students.
• Experience initiating, implementing and evaluating quality improvement, research or service development initiatives is highly valued.

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• 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.

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

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.