Senior Clinical Psychologist - Grade 3 (Specialist Medical Inpatients)
Core
Deliver evidence-based psychological assessment, treatment, and care planning to patients with complex and chronic health conditions in an acute inpatient setting, while providing supervision and supporting service development.
Role type
Senior Clinical Psychologist (Specialist Medical Inpatients)
Builds
Integrated patient care pathways for medical/surgical inpatients, including group interventions and liaison with community services.
Domain
Healthcare / Clinical Psychology / Medical Inpatient Services
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Clinical assessment, psychotherapy, multidisciplinary collaboration, supervision, quality improvement, research
Preferred skills
Training and mentorship of early career psychologists, health psychology experience
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Deliver individual psychological assessment and therapy; Provide secondary consultation to ward teams; Supervise psychologists, registrars, and provisional psychologists; Support service development, quality improvement, and research activities; Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including medical, nursing, and allied health staff.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities