Senior Clinical Psychologist - Psychiatry Adult

Work in an environment that offers: 

• Support for career progression and development
• An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
• An ability to live and work in a vibrant regional setting

The Position

Job Reference: 1913

Position Title: Senior Clinical Psychologist - Psychiatry Adult
Classification: PL1 – PL4 
Salary per fortnight (exc. super): $4,164.60 - $4,765.60
Hours per fortnight:  80 hours (includes an ADO every 4 weeks) 
Employment Status: Ongoing Full time 

Closing date: 17/03/2025

Role Description

We have a Senior Clinical Psychologist position for you!  We have designed this position so that you will have great opportunity to exercise your therapeutic and assessment expertise! The position is  in our inpatient precinct, which includes our acute inpatient unit, our extended care unit and our parent – infant unit.  This is a full time position.  We are seeking a candidate who is wanting to work with a variety of complex presentations, where you will be able to undertake comprehensive assessments (which could include some cognitive/personality assessment), clinical formulation, collaboration with our psychiatrists and multi-disciplinary team, over diagnostic dilemma’s, provide psychological interventions in individual/group format, as well as, provide recommendations to the multidisciplinary treatment teams!  Please refer to the inpatient precinct Adult acute (psychiatry Adult) unit position description.  This is an incredible opportunity to develop your career with exposure to a diverse inpatient population where your psychotherapeutic and recovery orientated skills will be very beneficial to our patients.  We expect you to be a consummate professional, who maintains high ethical standards and upholds the values of Bendigo Health.

Acute Precinct role:

• Greater opportunity for diagnostic clarification and working with both short term and longer term inpatient admissions,  as well as a greater variety of presentations, including patients admitted to the parent-infant unit
• We value your expertise in providing psychological interventions, to our longer term patients and your skills in establishing rapport and positive therapeutic alliances with patients with a number of co-morbidities.
• We will be seeking your knowledge and ability to make therapeutically orientated recommendations to families and patients and to work with therapeutically in both a group and individual format

Working with Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

• We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including: Staff health and wellbeing programs
• Career development and education opportunities
• Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
• Flexible Working Arrangements
• Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

Your New Division

The Mental Health & Well-being Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment area in Victoria stretching from Swan Hill in the north of the state to Gisborne in the south. Family sensitive practice is central to our models of mental health care and best practice ensures the identification, inclusion and support of families, carers and children.

Bendigo Region

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 320,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

Diversity and Inclusion

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

Interested?

We’d love to hear from you!  Please ensure that you attach a cover letter and an up-to-date copy of your resume.  

Need more information?  Please contact Fiona Hutchins, Nurse unit Manager on (03) 5454 7675 or Justin Moir, Psychology Director on JMoir@bendigohealth.org.au for a confidential discussion.  

Relocating to the Region?

Bendigo Health currently has access to the Regional Mental Health Workforce Incentive program.  Candidates relocating may be eligible for grants to support relocation and settlement expenses.  For more information please visit the Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV) website: Regional Mental Health Workforce Incentives · RWAV *Subject to the availability of government funding and eligibility criteria 

Position Description Psyciatry Adult: HERE

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