Your new role:

In this role, you will provide evidence-based clinical services as part of a multidisciplinary team within the Early Psychosis Program, working alongside nursing, allied health, and medical colleagues. You'll contribute to recovery-focused care for consumers and their families/carers through:

• Conducting comprehensive clinical assessments, patient education, therapeutic interventions and discharge planning.
• Delivering individual and group treatment, informed by evidence-based practice.
• Working collaboratively with families, carers, and external agencies to achieve person-centred outcomes.
• Participating in clinical education, supervision of students, and mentoring junior staff.
• Contributing to quality improvement, service development, and research activities that enhance patient care.

About you:

To thrive in this position, you will bring strong clinical skills, a commitment to recovery-focused practice, and the ability to work within a dynamic, interprofessional team. Your strengths will include:

• Tertiary qualification and registration as a Psychologist, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist (AHPRA/AASW as relevant).
• Ability to provide high-quality assessment, intervention and care planning with consumers and families.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with consumers, carers, and colleagues.
• Capacity to manage caseloads effectively while maintaining accurate documentation.
• Willingness to contribute to education, supervision, and service improvement initiatives.
• Commitment to working in alignment with Metro South Health's values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence.

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What we can offer you:

• Work within a collaborative and multidisciplinary Early Psychosis team.
• Opportunities to contribute to education, supervision, and service improvement.
• Be part of Metro South Health, Queensland's most culturally diverse health service.
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.