Your new role:
As a Mental Health Clinician (Psychologist), you'll provide high-quality community mental health services to older adults experiencing complex mental health needs. Working within a supportive multidisciplinary team, you'll deliver evidence-based assessment, intervention and case management while contributing to education, quality improvement and service development. In this role you will:
Deliver comprehensive mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions.
Manage a diverse community caseload using recovery-oriented, person-centred care.
Work collaboratively with consumers, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues.
Contribute to service improvement, clinical education and quality initiatives.
About you:
You're a compassionate and motivated psychologist who enjoys working collaboratively to improve outcomes for older adults experiencing mental illness. You'll bring:
Strong assessment, formulation and evidence-based intervention skills.
Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
Effective time management and clinical decision-making skills.
A commitment to continuous learning, quality improvement 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:
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.
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