Psychologist - Senior (Spinal Injuries Unit)

Queensland Health; Mackay Regional; Vor Ort; AUD 90.000 - 110.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is seeking a Senior Psychologist for the Spinal Injuries Unit. You will deliver specialist, evidence-based psychological care within a multidisciplinary team during rehabilitation, with responsibilities including assessment, intervention, supervision, and service improvement.

You will mentor junior staff, contribute to education and research initiatives, and support complex clinical decision-making to optimise patient outcomes in a tertiary care setting.

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated experience delivering complex psychological services, ideally within spinal injury rehabilitation.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to provide clinical advice and navigate team dynamics.
• Experience supervising, training and supporting junior clinicians and students.
• Ability to initiate and evaluate evidence-based initiatives that improve clinical practice and patient outcomes.

Aufgaben

• Deliver specialist psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation for patients with spinal injuries.
• Provide clinical advice and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support patient recovery and discharge planning.
• Mentor and supervise junior clinicians, students and support staff.
• Contribute to clinical education, research and service improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes.

Kenntnisse

Clinical judgement

Communication skills

Supervision

Evidence-based practice

Jobbeschreibung

Psychologist - Senior (Spinal Injuries Unit)

Make a Difference in Spinal Injury Rehabilitation

Temporary part-time opportunity for a Senior Psychologist to deliver specialist, evidence-based care within a multidisciplinary spinal injury rehabilitation team.

Your new role:

As a Senior Psychologist in the Spinal Injuries Unit, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based psychological assessment and intervention to support patients throughout their rehabilitation journey. Working within a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to complex clinical decision-making, support colleagues and drive improvements in patient care. You will:

• Deliver specialist psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation for patients with spinal injuries.
• Provide clinical advice and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support patient recovery and discharge planning.
• Mentor and supervise junior clinicians, students and support staff.
• Contribute to clinical education, research and service improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes.

About you:

You are an experienced psychologist with strong clinical judgement, excellent communication skills and a commitment to compassionate, patient-centred care. You thrive in a complex rehabilitation environment and enjoy supporting colleagues while contributing to continuous improvement. You will have:

• Demonstrated experience delivering complex psychological services, ideally within spinal injury rehabilitation.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to provide clinical advice and navigate complex team dynamics.
• Experience providing supervision, training and support to junior clinicians and students.
• Ability to initiate and evaluate evidence-based initiatives that improve clinical practice and patient outcomes.

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:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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.