About the Child Development Program/Service

The Child Development Service teams provide a family-centred, specialist 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 and provide clinical services at the QLD Children's Hospital and community services across 13 sites clustered in Central North and South locations.

Role Details

• Delivering routine Psychology clinical services within the CDS that are family-focussed and goal-oriented
• Demonstrating an understanding of child development with experience in using psychometric assessments and other tools or methods to aid diagnostic understanding
• Working collaboratively and effectively within multidisciplinary CDS team/s (including working in partnership with children and families) to achieve best practice outcomes for children with complex developmental difficulties and empower families to understand their child.
• Communicating appropriately and effectively with children and their families using strengths based and family-centred principles of care to build family capacity to optimise their health and actively manage current and future health care needs.
• Documenting client health information to ensure timely coordinated care in multi-disciplinary and/or inter-disciplinary team environment (including written reports, education and professional documents)
• Actively participating in clinical practice supervision, ongoing professional development activities and service development/ improvement activities
• Commensurate with the level of experience, providing student education and clinical practice supervision for less experienced practitioners, as well as direction to assistant, support staff under guidance of senior clinical practitioners (including education and training).

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:

• Opportunities for growth and development
• 12.75% superannuation contribution
• 17.5% leave loading
• Salary packaging

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