Senior Clinical Psychologist

Employment Type

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,

working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.

About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region. 

Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

An opportunity has become available for qualified Senior Clinical Psychologist to join the Nepean Hospital team on a temporary basis.
 
The Lifespan Clinics are a suite of outpatient clinics developed to ensure all patients who use methamphetamine are offered an opportunity for assessment, screening and diagnosis for known sequelae and complications of methamphetamine use. Targeted interventions are developed and implemented based on individual need, consistent with the principles of harm minimization and longitudinal follow up.  Building around individuals, the clinics bring in the expertise of specialists who understand the health manifestations of methamphetamine on body systems associated with their scope of practice.Clinicians work synergistically with Addiction Medicine specialists and highly skilled drug and alcohol clinicians to realise patient centred and fully integrated care.
 
Your role as the Senior Clinical/Forensic/ Clinical Neuropsychologist position is responsible for establishing and leading the implementation of evidenced-based psychological assessments and interventions for the treatment and management of drug and alcohol addiction and psychological conditions for people presenting to newly established Drug & Alcohol Lifespan Clinics.

Within the Lifespan group of clinics, the Senior Clinical/Forensic/ Clinical Neuropsychologist will provide high quality, patient focused, evidence-based psychological assessment, neuropsychological assessment, diagnosis and treatment to improve outcomes of patients and families/carers engaged with the program, this includes the provision of supervision, consultation and clinical leadership that requires a higher-level knowledge and experience that is manifested in higher levels of competence, initiative, innovation, responsibility, and the development and extension of applications of assessment and treatment methods. This position will provide specialised assessment and interventions to the Neurodiversity and ADHD clinics of the Lifespan group of clinics, as well as others.
 
You will lead the provision of planning, coordination and evaluation of high-quality, evidence-informed psychological services. This includes the provision of advice, support and guidance on the delivery of psychological services to management and other clinical psychologists and allied heath staff, including an active caseload of significantly complex patients that will be supported within the context of a multidisciplinary health care team. You will contribute to establishing the model of care, participate in the evaluation of clinical outcomes of services including research activities, assist in the development and provision of education and training programs, and will be expected to provide supervision of other psychologists.   


This position is open to fully registered and endorsed Clinical, Forensic and Neuropsychologists. 

If this is the kind of working environment for you and the opportunity excites you, please apply now!    

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

·       Accrued Day Off (ADO)

·       Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging

·       Novated Leasing

·       Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year

·       Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members

·       Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age. 

For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.