Position Summary
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- Start building a clinical career at an organisation invested in your development
- Ongoing opportunities to extend your clinical skills within a growing service
- Temporary Part Time – 48 hrs per fortnight (Parental Leave Relief)
About the facility
The Mental Health Therapy Services develops and provides evidenced-based psychological treatment for consumers of the Barwon Health's Community Mental Health Teams with a focus on delivering services for those experiencing personality disorders and/or a history of trauma. The service contributes to increasing capacity across MHDAS to utilise and deliver specialist assessment and therapies.
About the Role
This role involves providing direct clinical work both individually and in groups using therapies such as DBT, ACT, EMDR and CPT. This is a newly developed service involving design, delivery and evaluation of programs to enhance treatment outcomes for consumers in public mental health. Provision of clinical supervision to staff, registrars and higher degree students is also an aspect of the role.
As the successful applicant in the inter-professional MHDAS Therapy Program you will:
- Provide specialist psychological assessments and therapies to MHDAS consumers in line with consumers’ individual care and treatment plans
- Provide clinical leadership and contribute to service quality improvement within the Therapy Service and across MHDAS
- Increase capacity across MHDAS to utilise and deliver specialist psychological assessments and therapies to MHDAS consumers
- Provide clinical leadership and professional supervision for psychologists and students in Barwon Health
Area Profile
Sitting within one of Victoria’s six regional health centres, Barwon Health serves the community of Greater Geelong and beyond. Victoria’s second largest city after Melbourne! We serve over 500,000 people through the efforts of over 8,000 staff and more than 1200 volunteers.
Enjoy the range of lifestyle choices Geelong has to offer including inner city, coastal, suburban and rural homes at affordable prices and high standard of schooling options throughout the area. You will appreciate the beautiful parks, rivers, walks and wineries.
To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website.
What we offer
- Relocation packages and assistance
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development
- Attractive salary packaging benefits!
*Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
*Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure
Diversity and Inclusion
At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.
At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.
We at Barwon Health strongly encourage people with disability and diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles.
If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Mental Health Recruitment team via email at mentalhealth.recruitment@barwonhealth.org.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.
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Please note that this position will close at 11:45pm on closing date. Please ensure your application is added before then as we do not accept late applications.
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