Allied Health Team Leader, Child Development Service
This is a leadership role opportunity in our team of highly skilled Allied Health clinicians, specializing in tertiary child development assessments. Strong operational and clinical skills are required.
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Dependent on qualification
Hours Per Week: 24
Requisition ID: REQ557962
Salary:
Health Professional Level 4: $61.36 - $62.84
Senior Psychologist: $60.12 - $65.14
Senior Clinical Psychologist: $70.17 - 74.19
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
Child Development Service, Royal North Shore Hospital
What you'll be doing
The Child Development Service (CDS) is a specialist service within the NSLHD Child, Youth and Family Health Service. The CDS Team provides specialist (tertiary level) interdisciplinary, diagnostic assessment services for young children with emerging developmental disabilities, and other complex neurodevelopmental conditions. The Team uses a family-partnership, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and evidence-based approach in undertaking interdisciplinary assessments for children, and when providing support for their families.
The CDS Allied Health Team Leader (TL) manages, supports and leads the team of highly skilled, multidisciplinary allied health professionals and undertakes all operational human resource functions for the team.
The TL works closely with the CDS Clinical Director to provide leadership that ensures services are well coordinated for families. The position oversees team clinical workflows and ensures processes are in place to optimise client experience, outcomes and timely client-flow through the multidisciplinary assessment process.
Together with the CDS Service Director, the TL helps foster a culture that promotes continuous improvement in providing client-centred, high quality, integrated, safe and appropriate care.
The TL assists the CDS Director with clinical governance matters and to build and maintain strategic, sustainable service partnerships and pathways with key internal and external service providers to ensure care is coordinated, integrated, and safely handed over to other service providers on discharge.
The TL works together with the Senior Specialist Speech Pathologist to ensure care coordination and service provision.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Masters degree in Clinical Psychology or Psychology and current registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. Psychologist must have a minimum of 9 years experience. Experience at a Level 2 and Bachelor’s Degree in social work with eligility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers or current registration with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia or Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and eligibility for membership of Speech Pathology Australia.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high level clinical consultancy and effective supervision, education, training, and mentoring to clinicians and students - within the specialist scope of the position.
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, and ability to establish and maintain professional relationships.
- Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, with ability to lead with purpose, promote a strong sense of collaborative teamwork and foster a client outcome improvement focus.
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For role related queries or questions contact Con Papadopoulos on Con.Papadopoulos@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: 13 March 2025
Tentative Interview Dates: 31 March 2025
