Clinical Psychologist - Head to Health Kids Hub
Western NSW Local Health District
Posted 21 hours ago
New service. New team. New approach.
You’re invited to take a lead role.
The Head to Health Kids Hub is a new community-based service providing mental health and wellbeing support for children up to the age of 12 years with mild to moderate emotional, behavioural and mental health challenges, and their families. This new service is part of a nation-wide roll out of Kids Hubs jointly funded by NSW Health and the Australian Government.
Located in Orange with satellite services in Bathurst, we’ll be using flexible and creative approaches to increase the well-being and functioning of our clients, guided by a new model of care within a multidisciplinary framework.
As a Clinical Psychologist at the Head to Health Kids Hub, you’ll provide psychological assessment, case formulation and therapeutic intervention. You’ll take a child centred approach but will extend your scope to focus on the families and carers of our clients to provide a truly wholistic health service to our community. You’ll flexibly deliver adaptive interventions for a range of behavioural, emotional, psychosocial and health problems both independently and in conjunction with Head to Health Kids Hub staff and external service providers.
You’ll have the benefit of practicing within an experienced multidisciplinary team including allied health, nursing and medical staff reflecting the Hub based nature of the service, which will add to the scope of the support you’ll receive and be able to provide.
As well as your clinical role, you’ll use your expertise to help shape the future direction of a new and dynamic service and build capacity in the community.
This is a temporarily funded position until 30 June 2026 with the possibility of extension subject to funding.
About Western NSW Local Health District
We work with local clinicians and our community to provide the best possible health care to the people of the Western NSW Local Health District.
The Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) is one of the largest Local Health Districts in New South Wales covering an area of 246,676 square kilometres, similar to the size of Britain.
We deliver innovative health services to an estimated resident population of approximately 276,000 people. WNSWLHD is diverse in the health care it delivers boasting the largest rural mental health service in Australia, three major rural referral hospitals at Orange, Dubbo and Bathurst, 50 community health centres which provide access to a wide range of multidisciplinary primary, and community health services, 38 inpatient facilities including 25 Multipurpose Services (MPSs) and District Health Services at Mudgee, Cowra, Parkes and Forbes.
There are more than 30,786 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the Local Health District, representing 11.1% of the total population. This is significantly higher than the NSW average of 2.1%. The smaller more remote communities of Brewarrina, Walgett, Coonamble and Bourke have the highest proportion of Aboriginal people. People of a non-English speaking background, make up 2.8% of the population, compared to 15% for NSW.
Our region has some of the most vulnerable population in NSW and even Australia who generally have a lower socio-economic status, shorter life expectancy, and poorer health than other people living in NSW. More people also have at least one of the risk factors that contribute to poorer health including smoking, harmful use of alcohol, obesity and lack of physical activity.
Mental health is an important service that is provided by WNSWLHD both at a local and state-wide level. We are committed to improving our mental health services to ensure contemporary models of care are provided closer to the client's place of residence.
Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website.
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