• Women's Mental Health Service. RWH
• Ongoing Position
• 38 hours per week

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Women’s Mental Health Service provides mental health services to the Women’s Hospital in Parkville. Our major areas of activity are clinical work, education & training. Clinical services cover each of the hospitals clinical streams, i.e. maternity services, gynaecology and women’s cancer and neonatal services.

Within the Women's Mental Health Service you will have professional supervision, mentoring and peer support. You will have the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team across the Social Model of Health and the wider hospital.

Your contribution

• Provide psychological assessment and evidence based therapies (individual and group) to women who are patients of RWH who also have mental health problems, with a significant focus on perinatal mental health
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, care planning and case review
• Participate in the development and delivery of group programs as appropriate

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• Registration as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• A minimum of Masters level degree in Clinical Psychology
• Experience in the delivery of clinical psychology services to patients in a perinatal setting
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Demonstrated competency in Microsoft Office suite products, use of email and internet searching skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

It is a policy of the Women's to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability. If you need assistance or adjustments to fully participate in the application or interview process, please contact the hiring manager listed under 'Contact Person'.

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

Influenza Vaccination Requirement

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.

If you would like to receive this information/publication in an accessible format (such as large print or audio) please call our HR Enquiries line on: 03 8345 2080, or email [email protected] using the subject line: Clinical Psychologist / Clinical Psychology Registrar enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Selection Criteria:

• Essential: Are you registered as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)?
• Essential: Do you hold a minimum of Masters level degree in Clinical Psychology?
• Essential: Do you have experience in the delivery of clinical psychology services to patients in a perinatal setting?
• Essential: Can you show demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and independently?
• Essential: Do you have demonstrated competency in Microsoft Office suite products, use of email and internet searching skills?
• Essential: Can you show excellent interpersonal and communication skills?
• Desirable: Do you have experience in delivery of clinical psychology services in a general hospital setting?
• Desirable: Can you show expertise in design and conduct of research and data analysis?

Contact Person:

Julienne Kinna

Contact Number(03) 8345 2070

Contact Email: [email protected] using the subject line: Clinical Psychologist / Clinical Psychology Registrar enquiry via EthicalJobs.