Psychologist - Wondakka Community Rehabilitation Centre

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Mental Health – Elizabeth East
• Salary: $86,950 - $100,729 p.a. (pro rata) – AHP2 - Temporary Part-Time – working 18.75 hours per week, up until 1 May 2025

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Psychologist looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Psychologist within Mental Health Services.

In this role you will work within a multi-disciplinary team and provide specialist advice, assistance, and consultancy services to the Wondakka Community Rehabilitation Centre (CRC) staff.

Psychologists conduct assessments and intervention, for consumers presenting with complex mental health conditions. Assessments may involve formal cognitive testing, therapy readiness assessment, DBT therapy assessments. NALHN Neuropsychologists support Psychologists by providing specialist neuropsychological assessments from which the Psychologist can develop recommendations, interventions and plans for supporting staff in caring for consumers of Wondakka CRC.

Interventions involve but are not limited to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, trauma-related therapies (EMDR, CPT, PL), and Schema therapy and Narrative approaches. Group work is another primary intervention modality (e.g., Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis).

Training and supervision in the use of a range of assessments and therapies is provided on an ongoing basis. Targeted supervision by specialist clinicians within NALHN is available.

In this role you may be delegated to provide orientation, supervision and support to staff, provisional psychologists and volunteers. Contributing to the development of service aims and objectives and participating in the development and maintenance of relationships with key partners in government and non-government services in a key component of this role.

Psychologists contribute to research and evaluation of psychological practice and promote new information and development in the field of psychology.

To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate degree (Master of Clinical Psychology) or equivalent qualification as recognised by the PsyBA. You must hold general registration with the PsyBA.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Check(s)

• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policyin the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 861304

Enquiries

Deborah McLean

Principal Psychologist

Phone:

E-mail: 

Application Closing Date

17 May 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to applyfor further information.

Applications close: 17 May 2024

For further information and to apply visit www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/careersand search for Job Ref: 861304