Psychologist

• Up to $112,000 annual package (including 11% Superannuation) + travel reimbursement
• Increase your take home pay with salary packaging benefits up to $18,550p.a.
• Therapy sessions vary between a client’s home, in clinic or community with children aged 0-10 years
• Support includes team meetings, discipline specific meetings, transdisciplinary meetings, peer mentoring and supervision.
• Available $1000 PD budget and 5 days PD leave (pro-rata)
• We are part of the Portable Long Service Scheme! Bring your long service leave accrual from your current eligible employer and make it count
• Located in Glen Waverley

The Role:

bestchance Child Family Care is currently seeking a Psychologist with full AHPRA registration who carries a positive and proactive approach to join our dedicated Children’s Therapy team.

Reporting to the Team Leader - Children’s Therapy Services, you will provide early intervention supports and services to young children and families, and more broadly to the Allied Health team to provide high quality services, integrating the developmental and therapeutic needs of children in order to increase children’s meaningful participation in daily life.

As an active and key member of the Children’s Therapy Services program, this role will focus on delivering evidence-based care through a transdisciplinary model and contribute to the elevation of staff culture yielding positive client outcomes. 

This is an on-going role, working from our new, state of the art Glen Waverley head office. With flexibility around time-fraction, we are seeking a commitment of at least three full days per week up to full-time hours.

All bestchance Children's Therapy Services staff are required to hold a WWCC and be able to provide a satisfactory National/International Criminal History Check and NDIS Screening Clearance prior to employment.

About you:

To be successful you will be registered as a Psychologist with AHPRA, and have demonstrated ability and knowledge supporting children (and their families) with developmental delays and disabilities aged 0-10 years. You will need to be able to lead and engage in family-centred goal setting and review processes.

Crucial to your success will be your ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with stakeholders and families from a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds.

In addition to the above we offer:

• Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary carers
• Strong proactive focus on health and wellbeing, understanding that carers need caring too!
• Genuine flexible working arrangements in a supportive, inclusive and passionate team
• Protected mentoring and supervision time
• Opportunity to be part of our mentoring program to offer our Level 1 therapists support
• Access to Employee Wellbeing Program

About us:

CTS provide therapeutic intervention and capacity building supports to children aged 0-10 years and their families. We service families through the NDIS, Department of Education’s Continuity of Support program and also provide capacity building supports to educators through the School Readiness Funding (SRF) program.

We are committed to best practice within the early childhood intervention space and deliver our services through the Key Worker model by using a Transdisciplinary Practice (TDP) approach and for more complex cases, a Team Around the Child (TAC) approach. We are passionate about providing a welcoming and safe environment for our children and families to thrive and learn, and have adopted family-centered and strengths-based practices.

bestchance Child Family Care is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of building stronger communities, healthier families and happier childhoods.  We achieve this through our quality education, care and therapy services for children, our support programs for families, and our registered training organisation.

bestchance Child Family Care provides a supportive environment to grow, nurture and develop strong bonds with children and families.

For more information visit our website at https://www.bestchance.org.au/early-childhood-intervention-ndis/

Applications:

For a copy of the position description, please visit https://careers.bestchance.org.au/.

If you have any questions regarding this position please contact the Glen Waverley CTS Team Leader Nicole Erlich via email at nerlich@bestchance.org.au