Who we are:

Caraniche has been delivering innovative psychological and behavioural health services for 30 years, partnering with government, community, and private organisations across Australia to deliver positive client outcomes. Through our recent partnership with the WISE Employment Group, Caraniche is a not-for-profit organisation committed to supporting people to achieve and maintain positive mental health and wellbeing through collaborative and supportive service delivery. We are a diverse and inclusive culture which transcends to our clients, community and staff by honouring our commitment and values.

Your new role:

The Behavioural and Workplace Health (BWH) team is recruiting a Registered Psychologist to provide a range of workplace wellbeing services to our broad customer base. These services individual counselling, assessment, critical incident response, workplace consultancy, group-based interventions and training delivery.

Our client population presents with diverse needs, including mental health issues, family and relationship concerns, work-related challenges, exposure to trauma, etc. Our customers also request supervision and manager support; this space allows clients to access professional development and coaching across a range of workplace concerns. Our treatment model focuses on preventative workplace support via a teams-based approach that identifies and assists our customer organisations to mitigate psychosocial risks.

We are looking for an experienced professional to join our team to deliver exciting and innovative services. We foster a supportive team culture, and you will work collaboratively under the guidance of your Team Leader. Make a real difference by working in a highly motivated team and supportive culture.

The role requires agility and willingness to travel to customer sites. Our customers are based mostly across metropolitan Melbourne, with some based regionally. Furthermore, you will have capacity to deliver face to face counselling services to Children, Adolescents and Families, in the Geelong area.

What we are looking for:

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology
• Registration with a professional body e.g., Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), AASW, PACFA etc. Current and valid Police Check and valid Working with Children’s Check, and drivers licence
• Minimum 3 years work experience providing counselling, workplace support, critical incident response, group-based interventions, and/or training facilitation
• Able to work flexibly including office-based, remotely (Telehealth) and onsite at local co-location satellite sites, dependant on client and service need
• Experience working across the lifespan will be highly regarded

Our promise to you:

Caraniche values our employees and is committed to their professional development and career progression through regular individual and peer supervision and ongoing training on topics relevant to their area of work.

Our unique Professional Practice & Supervision (PPS) team provides individual and group clinical supervision (separate to line management) across all our clinical teams. PPS also offers a variety of internal trainings to ensure you continue to develop and progress your clinical skills and identity as a clinician.

We are committed to supporting you to provide the highest quality services to our clients whilst ensuring you are supported to reflect and develop as a clinician and progress your career objectives.

Caraniche Employee Benefits:

• Salary Packaging options to increase your take home pay
• Work equipment provided – laptop, and phone if required
• Flexible work arrangements by negotiation to suit your work/life balance
• Professional Practice Clinical supervision (1:1 and group) provided regularly
• Internal training, Professional development days
• 4 x Wellbeing days per year (additional to other leave entitlements)
• Supportive leave entitlements
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Reimbursement of professional membership fees

We are ready to hear from you:

Caraniche has a culture of belonging and we value differences. We are an organisation that welcomes and appreciates everyone for who they are as we embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, gender identities, ability and thinking.

Let us know if we can provide any reasonable accommodations to enable you to participate in the job application and interview process because of your personal circumstances. Please reach out to the Careers team at [email protected] using the subject line: Registered Psychologist - Belmont enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please note:

• Please complete a cover letter outlining your suitability.
• All successful offers will be subject to a satisfactory Fit2Work Check including a national criminal history check and work entitlement check.
• To be eligible you must have full Australian work rights.
• Applications will be screened upon receipt.