Lead Clinical Psychologist

Western Kids Health; Perth; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured handover

Protected leadership time

Leadership team seat

Dedicated psychology suite

Multidisciplinary colleagues

Professional development support

Remuneration commensurate with experie

Flexibility on days & FTE

Job summary

Western Kids Health in Perth is seeking a Lead Clinical Psychologist to oversee the psychology service across two clinics. You will maintain a paediatric caseload while guiding a multidisciplinary team and sitting on the leadership group with discipline leads.

The role combines high-level clinical practice with people leadership, ensuring wellbeing and performance of the psychology team within a family-centred, MDT environment.

Qualifications

• Endorsed clinical psychologist with AHPRA.
• Psychology Board of Australia supervisor status.
• Substantial post-qualification experience in child, adolescent and family work.
• Experience leading, supervising or mentoring other psychologists.
• Budgeting, capacity and referral flow experience.
• Commitment to family-centred, strengths-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and support the psychology team, including performance and wellbeing check-ins.
• Provide and coordinate clinical supervision across the team, including provisional psychologists and registrars.
• Hold a paediatric caseload and role model child-focused practice.
• Own clinical governance for psychology: pathways, protocols, outcome measurement and quality improvement.
• Manage the psychology budget, staffing and professional development spend.
• Lead recruitment and onboarding for new psychologists.
• Contribute to leadership team decisions, strategic planning and cross-discipline collaboration.
• Collaborate with marketing on referral sources and service promotions.
• Build relationships with referrers, schools, paediatricians and external providers.

Skills

Leadership & supervision

Team building

Budgeting & planning

Stakeholder engagement

Family-centered practice

Education

Endorsed clinical psychologist with AHPRA

Psychology Board of Australia supervisor status

Job description

Western Kids Health, Shenton Park and Hillarys, Perth WA.

Permanent, part time (minimum 0.6-0.7FTE)through to full time. Start Q12027, or sooner by agreement.

About Western Kids Health

Western Kids Health is a multidisciplinary paediatric allied health practice in Perth, founded in 2018. Our physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, psychologists and dietitians work side by side across two clinics, Victoria House in Shenton Park and our Hillarys clinic, supporting children and families from the early years through to adolescence.

Our services are organised into clinics: Early Intervention, Mental Health, Gender Diversity, Feeding and ARFID, School Aged Services and Complex Care. Within each, our team works as a true MDT, including joint appointments where clinicians from different disciplines see a child and family together in the same session.

Our model of care is family centred, strengths based and attachment informed, within a family systems framework. We see parents as the experts in their own child and we work alongside them. The same approach shapes how we lead our team.

Beyond the clinic room, our team runs group programs, delivers professional development on emotional regulation and mental health for schools and other services, and provides outreach. Western Kids Health works closely with not-for-profits including Tiny Sparks WA, Arthritis & Osteoporosis WA and PlaygroupWA, and holds a Commonwealth contract for allied health outreach to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Our psychology service is involved in all of this work.

About the role

The Lead Clinical Psychologist is the senior clinical and people leader for psychology at Western Kids Health. You will hold your own paediatric caseload, lead and supervise a team of clinical, general and provisional psychologists, and sit on the WKH leadership team alongside our Discipline Leads for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology. The role reports to the Managing Director.

This is a role for someone who enjoys both sides of the work: the clinical craft of supporting children and families, and the people leadership that helps a team of psychologists do their best work and stay well while they do it.

Your week

Leadership time is built into the roster rather than squeezed around a full caseload. At full time (38 hours) around 20hours a week is booked clinical time and a dedicated 7.6 hour day for protected for leadership, supervision and team work.

We ask for a minimum of four days, however this is negotiable for the right candidate, so you have real presence with your team for supervision, leadership meetings and the day to day support a psychology team needs. Within that, we are open to talking about which days and what FTE works for you.

What you will do

Lead, mentor and support the psychology team, including performance and development conversations and wellbeing check ins

Provide and coordinate clinical supervision across the team, including provisional psychologists and registrars

Hold a paediatric caseload and model the way we work with children and families

Own clinical governance for psychology: clinical pathways, protocols, outcome measurement and quality improvement

Manage the psychology budget, including staffing and professional development spend

Take part in recruitment and lead onboarding for new psychologists

Contribute to leadership team decisions, strategic planning and cross discipline collaboration

Work with our marketing team on where referrals are needed and which services to promote

Build relationships with referrers, schools, paediatricians and external providers

What you will bring

Endorsed clinical psychologist with AHPRA

Psychology Board of Australia approved supervisor status

Substantial post qualification experience, with a significant part of it in child, adolescent and family work

Experience leading, supervising or mentoring other psychologists

Confidence with the business side of running a clinical team: budgets, capacity and referral flow

A commitment to family centred, strengths based and attachment informed practice

Current Working With Children Check and National Police Clearance

Experience supervising clinical psychology placement students or registrars

Experience working with gender diverse children and young people

Experience in private practice or a multidisciplinary setting

What we offer

• A structured handover with our outgoing Lead, with mentoring available through the transition
• Protected leadership time built into your roster
• A seat on the leadership team and a real say in how the practice grows
• A dedicated psychology suite at Victoria House, Shenton Park
• Multidisciplinary colleagues down the hall: physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and dietetics
• Support for your own professional development
• Remuneration commensurate with experience
• Flexibility on days and FTE

Applications close 30th November 2026. We will be reviewing applications as they come in, so an early application is welcome.