Senior/Clinical Psychologist, CYF Sustaining NSW Families
Are you interested in using your Clinical Psychology skills to support families as part of a Child and Family Health Nursing sustained home visiting program? We are seeking a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist, with extensive experience and commitment to providing trauma informed, family partnership-oriented care to join our inter disciplinary team of clinicians who are passionate about early intervention and making a difference in children's development and lifelong potential.
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Remuneration: Dependent on Qualification
Hours Per Week: 8
Requisition ID: REQ551775
Salary (Per hour):
Clinical Psychologist: $55.10 - $67.16
Senior Psychologist: $60.12 - $65.17
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.
Where you'll be working
NSLHD Child, Youth and Family Sustaining NSW Families Program - Macquarie Hospital (and various sites)
What you'll be doing
The SNF Psychologist works collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary Sustaining NSW Families (SNF) Team within the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Community Health Service.
The Child and Family Health (CFH) nurse-led SNF program offers families experiencing psychosocial stressors home-visiting support and structured nurse-led interventions from mid-pregnancy until their child is two years old. The SNF Team aim to support healthy parent-child relationship development and support new parents' capacity to optimise their child’s health, well-being and development in the early years of life - to give children a strong foundation for learning before they start school.
The position works closely with the SNF Clinical Coordinator and links professionally to the NSLHD Principal Psychologist. The role works collaboratively with SNF allied health colleagues , providing high-level clinical consultation and education for the SNF nurses who work directly with each family - rather than providing direct care to clients. The role may conduct a joint home-visit when more complex concerns emerge. The role facilitates referrals and supports families to access community-based mental health services when needed – supporting seamless care continuum. This senior role applies their specialist psychology expertise in new parent adjustment, parent-child relationship and attachment development in the perinatal period. They provide trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, evidence-based, child-centered, neurodiversity-affirming advice and guidance during interdisciplinary team care review and family conference meetings to support reflective nursing practice. They facilitate exploration of attachment styles, past and present parent-attachment and impact on mother-baby, father-baby and parent-parent relationships. They also explore maternal reflective functioning and capacity to ‘keep their baby in mind’. They may facilitate nurse-family- interaction role modelling to explore parenting capacity for change. They explore realistic expectations of parental change capacity, maintaining professional engagement and boundaries and fostering parenting confidence and self-efficacy.
The role also supports parent education and coaching group programs aimed at optimising family wellbeing and attachment.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Tertiary qualification in Psychology with current registration from the Psychology Board of Australia. Master's degree or higher in Clinical Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology, or some other recognised clinical area in psychology deemed relevant to working with parents and children in the perinatal period.
- Demonstrated extensive experience in working with children and families from priority population groups and familiarity with trauma-informed approaches, factors affecting early attachment and child development, evidence-based psychological assessments, and interventions designed for working with families in the perinatal period from diverse backgrounds.
- Proven ability to work effectively and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team to provide integrated and collaborative care, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and inclusive psychological services.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to establish rapport and build therapeutic relationships with parents and caregivers. Flexibility and adaptability to respond to changing client needs and priorities.
- Driver’s licence (P2 acceptable) and willingness to travel for work.
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For role related queries or questions contact Julie Draper on Julie.Draper@health.nsw.gov.au
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy . You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
Applications Close: 16 February 2025
Tentative Interview date: 24 February 2025
