Do you thrive on mentoring others and fostering growth in the field of sexual health?
Join SHIPS as a Senior Sexual Health Psychologist and play a key leadership role supporting our team during a 12-month parental leave period. You’ll help shape a positive team culture while providing expert supervision and guidance to practitioners working at the heart of sexual health and intimacy.

About Sexual Health and Intimacy Psychological Services (SHIPS)

SHIPS is a progressive, inclusive, psychology organisation with a mission to reduce shame and stigma attached to sex and sexuality for individuals and for our community. We are industry leaders as the first psychology practice in Australia to focus exclusively on sexual health and its intersection with mental health and marginalised communities. We train and supervise psychologists to deliver exceptional, ethical, trauma-informed sexual health treatment. We believe that therapeutic content should not just be for people who can access the therapy room, so we develop and share evidence-based and community-feedback-informed resources. We are a kink-friendly, poly-friendly, sex work positive and LGBTIQA+ inclusive organisation.

Position Description

The Senior Psychologist provides high-quality clinical supervision and support to SHIPS practitioners, as well as consultation and guidance to the support team. The role focuses on fostering clinical excellence, practitioner wellbeing, and evidence-based practice in sexual health and intimacy psychology. Working collaboratively with the leadership team, the Senior Psychologist ensures supervision processes promote reflective practice, ethical decision-making, and high standards of client care. The Senior Psychologist also manages a client caseload.

Duration: 12-month contract, parental leave coverage (Possibility of role continuing on a part-time basis after the 12-months)

Days: Minimum 0.4 FTE (2 days employment)

Commencing date: 2 March 2026

Caseload: Small case load in addition to supervision duties

Key Responsibilities & Duties

Supervision of SHIPS Practitioners:

Provide structured, evidence-based supervision tailored to sexual health psychology.

Offer timely, psychologically safe debriefing to support staff after complex or distressing cases.

Leadership, Consultation, & Support:

Actively contribute to leadership team meetings, providing insights on staff support needs, training needs, and clinical policy revisions.

Consult with the Intake Officer on new referrals to assess client needs and practitioner competencies to ensure appropriate client-practitioner matching.

Provide secondary consultation to support practitioners in managing complex cases involving trauma, attachment dynamics, and marginalised identities.

Respond effectively to crisis situations by supporting staff during and after difficult conversations.

Treatment:

Deliver psychological treatment for individuals and/or more than one person for sexual health, intimacy and related mental health issues.

Deliver psychological treatment for mental health issues for marginalised community members, such as those who practise kink or BDSM, those who engage in non-monogamous relationship structures, sex workers or members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

Administration and communication:

Maintain clinical case notes.

Respond to internal and external emails.

Write mental health review letters for General Practitioners.

Write professional assessment reports and support letters for clients and health professionals.

Consult with health practitioners regarding the treatment of clients.

Liaise with administration and practice staff regarding therapeutically informed communication with clients, as well as booking and availability.

Attend monthly team meetings to maintain collaborative care of clients.

Benefits of working at SHIPS

SHIPS has a focus on fostering a safe and inspiring workplace. Receive ongoing support and opportunities for connection and collaboration from our community of exceptional and down-to-earth practitioners and support staff.

Fortnightly clinical supervision and leadership support.

Access to all SHIPS sexual health training courses (currently 24+ modules, 30+ hours of training).

Access to resource library.

Team training workshops.

Full administration support from our exceptional admin team (all bookings, payments and communication are taken care of for you).

Therapeutically minded business model and procedures – clinical governance and client wellbeing guides processes on every level.

Reimbursement (pro rata) of your AHPRA registration costs.

Reimbursement (pro rata) of your professional insurance costs.

12% superannuation on top of base salary.

Help us develop innovative strategies for supporting the wellbeing of our community.

SHIPS is growing - future opportunities for career progression.

About you

Ahpra Registered General or Clinical Psychologist.

Ahpra Board-approved Supervisor

Minimum of 3 years relevant clinical experience post-registration.

Willing to complete Sexual Health training require for SHIPS staff (Provided by Institute of Sexual Health Psychology Australia ISHPA)

Completed formal training and/or experience with treatment of sexual health and/or intimacy issues using psychological interventions.

Experience within leadership roles and/or mentoring.

Completed training and practice with a trauma processing modality (i.e, Schema Therapy, IFS, and/or EMDR).

Commitment to high-quality, evidence-based psychological care.

Ability to work and communicate collaboratively with a team and contribute positively to team culture.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to manage multiple roles and relationships.

Alignment and commitment to SHIPS values, goals and ethos.

We strongly encourage and support applications from psychologists who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, sex workers, neurodivergent, from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, from kink/BDSM communities, and/or from any other marginalised communities.

Application instructions

Interested applicants can send a cover letter and resume to Jasmin Quinsee, Supervision Lead, at [email protected]

For any queries, please contact Jasmin via email or call 03 8456 2818.

Applications close: Friday 24th October 2025