Psychologist Advanced

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Queensland Health's Child Development Service (CDS) is seeking an Advanced Psychologist to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to provide specialist expertise, lead practice change, and mentor the next generation of psychologists, all while making a profound impact on children and families across our service area.

About The Child Development Program / Service Teams

The Child Development Service teams provide a family-centred, specialist public health service for children who have complex developmental and behavioural concerns. The teams provide multidisciplinary clinical services and consultancy / advice to support a comprehensive understanding of the child's developmental profile and how this relates to their functioning and participation in everyday life. Teams use a strengths-based, partnership approach to enable families, key stakeholders and community providers to best support the child's optimal development, health and wellbeing across the life course.

Teams also contribute to education and training, advocacy and development of professional competence and standards in the field of developmental paediatrics. Teams include a variety of health professionals including medical, allied health and nursing, along with administration officer personnel. Teams provide clinical services at the Queensland Children's Hospital quaternary service and community services across thirteen sites clustered in Central North and South locations.

The Position Of Psychologist - Advanced Will

• Deliver specialist-level expertise in discipline-specific and specialist child development services for children and their families as part of a multi-disciplinary Child Development Service team across multiple sites of a designated Service Area.
• Lead service-wide and contribute at a State-wide level to discipline and specialist child development knowledge and practice.
• Lead child development practice change and discipline-specific and child development professional leadership support (including education and training); and provide clinical practice supervision to less experienced psychologists.
• Provide operational support to CDS Service Area Team Leader as required.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital , Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service , our Child and Youth Mental Health Service , and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including :

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here .Seniority level

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