AHP3/2 Senior Clinical/Health Psychologist / Psychologist/Clinical/Health Psychologist Chronic Heart Failure
Job no: 883365
Work type: Part time
Location: Adelaide Metro Western
Categories: Allied and Scientific Health
* Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Woodville
* Salary AHP-2 $88,255 - $102,240.p.a. (pro rata) + superannuation and salary packaging
* Salary AHP-3 $104,180 - $111,746 p.a. (pro rata) + superannuation and salary packaging
* Permanent part-time working 15 hours per week
About the Role
AHP-2
As a Psychologist / Clinical/Health Psychologist within the CALHN Chronic Heart Failure Self-Management Program, you’ll be instrumental in providing specialised psychological care to adults managing chronic heart failure. You’ll conduct thorough assessments and design tailored intervention programs, offering direct support to patients coping with heart failure-related psychological challenges. By promoting health and wellbeing practices, you will help patients improve their disease self-management and overall quality of life.
Supported by a multidisciplinary team, you’ll play a key role in planning, delivering, and evaluating the Chronic Heart Failure Psychology Service, ensuring that each patient receives evidence-based, compassionate care. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives, helping to advance the service’s approach to chronic heart failure management.
AHP-3
As a Senior Clinical/Health Psychologist within the CALHN Chronic Heart Failure Self-Management Program, you will provide specialised psychological care to adults managing chronic heart failure. Utilising your clinical expertise, you will conduct thorough assessments and individually tailored interventions, working directly with patients to address Chronic Heart Failure-related psychological challenges and to improve disease self-management. Your role will be pivotal in fostering positive health and wellbeing practices within a multidisciplinary setting.
In this leadership position, you will oversee the planning, delivery, and evaluation of the Chronic Heart Failure Psychology Service, incorporating both individual and group therapies. Additionally, you’ll lead research and quality improvement initiatives, ensuring evidence-based care continues to evolve within the service. As a clinical leader, you will provide supervision to provisionally registered Psychologists on clinical placement and support other psychologists within the CALHN psychology team. This role is an exceptional opportunity to lead, innovate, and make a lasting impact in chronic disease management.
Qualifications
See role descriptions
About CALHN
The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan and regional areas.
We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.
Benefit of Joining CALHN
At CALHN, we're dedicated to your career satisfaction and wellbeing, offering tailored benefits for healthcare professionals, including:
* Salary Attractions: Flexible options for salary packaging covering living expenses, meal and entertainment allowances, and novated leasing.
* Annual Leave: Enjoy paid recreation leave for essential rejuvenation, with leave loading applied.
* Flexible Work Arrangements: The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
* Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counselling and support services are available via our Employee Assistance Program.
* Onsite Facilities: Convenient paid car parking facilities ensure easy access.
* Team Support: Experience collaborative culture and professional supervision guiding your career journey.
Join CALHN for a fulfilling career bolstered by comprehensive benefits and unwavering commitment to your success.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
CALHN is an Equal Opportunities employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community.
Application Information:
* Please refer to the role description for essential educational/vocational qualifications that may be required.
* Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and compliant Immunisation screening as indicated in the role description.
* SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Please note that unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies or third parties will not be accepted for this position.
Job ref: 883365
Enquiries to:
Sarah Wilksch, Acting Senior Manager Psychology
Phone: 0466 023 572
E-mail: sarah.wilksch@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
11:55 pm Friday 22 November 2024
Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information
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Advertised: 07 Nov 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
Applications close: 22 Nov 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
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