Transform Mental Healthcare with Us
At The Talbot Centre, we are not just part of the healthcare system—we are here to transform it. We believe every person deserves to know their worth, feel a sense of belonging, and be supported to grow into their full potential. Our mission is to challenge the status quo and pioneer a new kind of person-centred care—one that is deeply human, accessible, and empowering. We are reimagining healthcare, breaking down barriers, and creating real change for individuals, families, and communities.
If you’re driven by purpose and want to be part of something bigger, this is where you belong.
Be Part of a Movement, Not Just a Workplace: Our Approach to HealthCare
At The Talbot Centre, we are focused on providing holistic, inclusive, and affirming care to individuals with a range of complex mental health needs. Our niche areas of focus include:
- Eating and feeding disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
- Trauma and complex presentations
- Anxiety presentations
- Child and family mental health
- Supporting clients from diverse backgrounds, including neurodivergent folk and Christian clients seeking faith-aligned care
We integrate relational approaches—such as schema therapy, attachment-based interventions, and psychodynamic principles—with skills-based approaches, including CBT, ACT, and DBT. This allows us to support clients in understanding and transforming underlying patterns while equipping them with practical tools to navigate challenges. If this balanced, integrative approach resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you.
Our multidisciplinary team provides collaborative, whole-person care that adapts to the needs of each individual. We are committed to reducing stigma, challenging outdated treatment models, and fostering autonomy in recovery and mental well-being. Our approach is trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, fat-positive and culturally responsive, ensuring every client feels seen, heard, and supported. We value lived experience perspectives alongside research and clinical expertise, ensuring our work is both evidence-based and deeply human.
If you are passionate about delivering meaningful care in an environment that values innovation and inclusivity, we’d love to hear from you.
Build Your Career, Your Way
We recognise that career satisfaction looks different for everyone, so we work with our psychologists to design roles that align with their passions and aspirations via our Career by Design framework. Want to do both therapy and assessments or focus on just one? Want to work across streams, across the lifespan or focus on your niche? All possible.
About the Program (What we Offer)
Our Director has a strong passion for early career education and has personally mentored over 100 early career professionals. Based on this passion and our years of experience supporting graduates within the private sector we have developed a comprehensive training program delivered within a supportive, team-focused environment and have grown our leadership team to ensure that you can be supported by a team of senior clinicians in developing yourself as a psychologist. The program has been running in a formal capacity for the past 8 years and we are now accepting applicants for our 2027 positions.
We are offering full time employed positions (we will consider part time, minimum 3 days for the right applicant) that meet (and exceed) all requirements of the registrar program where you will have access to:
- Individual and group supervision with a board approved supervisor as well as supervision with other senior clinical psychologists (your supervisor and your manager will be different people - no dual roles)
- Access to our group supervision program where you can select from a range of group supervision topics run regularly by various different senior clinicians
- A wide range of professional development activities
- Mentoring to assist you to develop career goals and establish yourself in the areas of work you find most meaningful
- Access to the sustainability mentoring group focused on managing imposter syndrome, minimising burnout and setting yourself up for a meaningful career
- The opportunity to develop your skills within our niche areas
- Exposure to a broad range of client presentations
- Gradual build up of case load to ensure sufficient time is dedicated to learning and development and diverse work responsibilities (with an ongoing full day allocated to training and project work)
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work arrangements
- Work closely with and learn from various disciplines within a multidisciplinary team
- Learn and grow alongside a cohort of peers
- A workplace where you can develop a strong sense of belonging within a passionate, supportive team
- Industry best systems, processes and administrative support to ensure that you can fulfil your role effectively
- Brand new, purpose-built facilities – we have recently moved to a beautiful new premises in Bella Vista
- Capacity to contribute in a positive way to the reduction of mental health stigma within our local community
- Develop advanced skills in education, training and research in addition to advanced clinical skills
- Contribute to the development and delivery of innovative mental health services with a focus on early intervention
- Opportunities for career progression within the organisation if this is aligned with your career goals
- Individualised reward and recognition programs that recognise that each person is different and feels valued and motivated by different things at different points in their life and aligns rewards with your personal needs
- A burnout prevention model through work design that is informed by literature and staff feedback
Commencement date is flexible dependent on when your full registration is finalised. We are also willing to consider graduates who are partway through their registrar program. Please indicate if this applies to you within your application. Our graduates complete the registrar program before the 2 years due to the extensive nature of the development opportunities offered.
In 2027 we will be offering various graduate clinical focus streams:
Eating & Feeding Disorder Focus: This position will focus on developing the skills required to work effectively with individuals of all ages experiencing eating and feeding disorders. You will develop skills across all core competencies outlined in the National Practice Standards for Eating Disorders including training in evidence based interventions such as CBT-E and Maudsley Family Based Treatment. You will also have the opportunity to work with our industry leading multidisciplinary feeding team.
Child & Family Focus: This position will focus on developing the skills required to work effectively with children and families with a wide variety of presentations, including enhancing the capacity to work with parents, families and schools systemically. The Centre provide support for a wide variety of child and family presentations including anxiety, behavioural concerns, tic disorders, body focused repetitive behaviours, eating and feeding disorders, OCD and support for neurodivergent clients. You will have the opportunity to develop skills across these diverse presentations and to work within attachment and developmental frameworks to assist children and their families to thrive.
OCD & Related Disorders Focus: This position will focus on developing the skills required to work effectively with individuals of all ages experiencing obsessive compulsive and related disorders including OCD, tics, Body Dysmorphia and BFRBs. You will have the opportunity to be mentored and supervised by nationally recognised clinicians in the evidence based interventions for these presentations including CBIT, ERP and ComB.
Trauma & Complex Presentations Focus: This position will focus on developing the skills required to work effectively with adolescents and adults presenting with complex presentations, usually involving trauma, comorbidity and personality features. You will develop strong formulation skills as the basis for providing a framework for working with complex presentations and will have the opportunity to develop skills in multiple relevant modalities of therapy including schema therapy, family systems therapies, and DBT/RO-DBT. This stream will also involve working with clients with comorbid eating disorder symptoms.
Neurodiversity Focus: This position will focus on developing the skills required to work effectively with neurodivergent individuals of all ages experiencing a wide range of mental health concerns. You will be mentored to develop your clinical practice in alignment with a neurodiversity affirming framework and be supported to consider how to adapt treatment protocols in a formulation-driven and client-centred way. You will also have the opportunity to work in our psychometric testing clinic completing multidisciplinary assessments to support formal identification.
There is also scope to work across multiple streams if aligned with your interests. Please indicate in your application which position you would like to apply for and why.
Why The Talbot Centre?
At The Talbot Centre, we don’t just offer jobs—we offer a place to belong. We’re looking for someone who isn’t just searching for their next role, but a team where they can grow, thrive, and make a real impact for years to come. We are not a private practice; we are a private outpatient service with a unique organisational structure designed to provide the best possible support for our staff which in turn results in the highest quality care for our community. If you're looking for a meaningful, long-term career in a workplace that truly values you, we’d love to hear from you.
The Talbot Centre is a multi-award-winning, premier healthcare service in Northwest Sydney. We were awarded Team Culture Excellence at the Australian Allied Health Awards in 2024, reflecting our commitment to a supportive and thriving workplace. Our director is also a past recipient of the Excellence in Allied Health Leadership & Management Award (2021).
Some examples of our philosophy in action include:
- Providing size-inclusive furniture for staff and clientele
- Liaising with neurodivergent collaborators for research and treatment purposes
- Creating a series of inclusive practice guidelines that govern how we engage at work
- Providing workplace accommodations for neurodivergent staff
Our team includes psychologists of varying backgrounds and experience, dietitians, speech pathologists, and a paediatrician (with further expansion of services planned within the next 12 months).
Learn More About Us
To get a better feel for our team culture, check out our Instagram page (@thetalbotcentre) and visit our website: www.thetalbotcentre.com.au
Here's what some of our grads have said about their experience:
“As a graduate psychologist, the Talbot Centre graduate clinical registrar program is more than I could have hoped for in a job… This program is very unusual in the field of psychology, where graduate psychologists often go into their first job with little if any support. Private practice can often be very isolating for psychologists; however at the Talbot Centre I am surrounded by a wonderful team of warm, like-minded clinicians. The Talbot Centre clinical graduate program is a shining example of how the mental health industry can support graduate psychologists to be the best therapists they can be.” - Graduate 1
“While the Master of Clinical Psychology program provided me with sound clinical and theoretical knowledge… I feel that it is a really big leap from this to full time work in the field and managing a full case load and all of the organisational aspects that come with that. The graduate positions at The Talbot Centre are important because you receive support and guidance in those early stages knowing what is required for the registrar program… It provides allocated time for leaning and development which is vitally important in these early career stages, particularly with the abundance of new clients and new presentations. Individual and group supervision with practitioners within the same setting so they understand the processes of the clinic, as opposed to having to organise an external supervisor who is unaware of the practice setting. Working with a team, many of which are early career psychologists, who are at a similar stage of learning. Additionally, receiving guidance on how to make clinical practice effective.” - Graduate 2
How to Apply
If you’re ready to step into in a team that truly values you where you can make a real difference and can grow into the type of clinician you want to be, we’d love to hear from you.
Please forward your resume and a brief cover letter to Dr Talbot via our website Join our Team page https://thetalbotcentre.com.au/for-health-professionals/join-our-team/
We strongly value authenticity and care about who you are as a person. We’d love your cover letter to give us a real sense of who you are—not just what you’ve done. Tell us why this role excites you, what drives you, and why The Talbot Centre feels like home for you. Or, if you prefer, send us a video instead of a cover letter.
If you are not a clinical psychology registrar but the above appeals to you please get in touch, we are also accepting applications for experienced clinicians with an interest in the above areas.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Employee mentoring program
- Free food
- Professional development assistance
Licence/Certification:
- AHPRA Registration as a Psychologist (Preferred)
Work Authorisation:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bella Vista NSW 2153
