Clinical Lead, Psychology Caffe (Latrobe)

Psychology Caffe

Are you a highly skilled and experienced Psychologist? Do you want to take on a leadership role with a well-resourced and welcoming clinic in the heart of the Northwest Coast of Tasmania. Then look no further, Psychology Caffe has the role for you!

The Position

Psychology Caffe in Latrobe are looking for an experienced Psychologist, who is Psychology Board Approved as a supervisor, enjoys working with individuals with complex family and inter-generational challenges, and likes working with young people and leading community development. They have a skilled team, many of whom are very experienced and independent, and they also invest in growing psychologists in rural and remote communities, the director has semi-retired, so they have a tightly held role available for a psychologist with energy to give back to the profession.

In this role you will…

• Providing training and supervision for graduates in initial psychological assessments from a bio-psycho-social model using a humanistic, comprehensive and well-informed approach in a sensitive and objective way.
• Delivery and support of comprehensive strengths-based intervention including treatment planning and referral out to appropriate services if required.
• Provide leadership and support to the clinical team whilst holding a niche case load of preferred clients to provide evidence-based interventions.
• Delivering the highest level of training in clinical care and technical expertise.
• Lead the team in development of effective and wholistic integrated care including management of electronic client records and innovative approaches to solving problems.

For this role, you will need to (have)…

• AHPRA Registration and endorsement in an area of clinical practice.
• Minimum of 5 years direct clinical experience.
• Training and Development in management and leadership will be highly regarded.
• Tech savvy and resource knowledge as they have cutting edge electronic systems.
• Love to work autonomously.
• To value punctuality and have excellent time management.
• Be comfortable around cats and dogs (The practice has animal assisted therapy).

The Organisation

Psychology Caffe are a private national award-winning mental health service who strive to provide children, adolescents, adults, and their families with client centred and cutting-edge assessment and treatment to change their lives for better, not just immediately, but throughout the future and for the individual and their whole family with evidence-based practice. They love doing themselves out of work!

Psychology CAFFE have a burning passion for making their contribution towards a better world for the existing and future generations in their community, and through changing the world one child and community at a time.

Their purpose is to use the best clinical skills and expertise to know an individual in a comprehensive, informed, and objective way, so that they can work with them to apply their knowledge to each individual and unique situation. Then in a strength based, inclusive and compassionate way, they negotiate through roadblocks and fractures in relationships so that they can move forward in a developmentally sensitive and positive way towards wellbeing and mental health.

Psychology Caffe’s excellent reputation is built on an ethos of ‘the clients is their own expert’ and that therapy starts at the door and continues into the clinic which is more like a home. Their ultimate goal is to teach, inspire and motivate parents struggling with children’s emotional and behavioural expressions of their internal worlds, encouraging them to see their child as whole and unique irrespective of external circumstances, including difficult behaviours.

Parents can then support their child in a neuro-developmentally informed way, to help children to identify their own feelings, learn to express them safely, and then communicate their needs in an effective way. In this way, they are early intervention experts. Psychology Caffe use proven, integrative and evidence-based treatment programs that positively transform people’s lives.

Love and care for the people they are honoured and privileged to serve is intrinsically embedded in the DNA of their practice.

What's on offer?

• Lots of variety and challenge (And they expect you to sing out if the challenge is too great!) and a lifestyle second to none.
• An opportunity for professional growth and development or consolidation of your career making a difference.
• The real chance to be part of an expert team improving all the time towards being a major force for good and change in the world of child and family care.
• You will have access to multidisciplinary peer consultation and will be growing and developing other professionals and learning resources to sharpen (even further) all of your skills.
• Open, honest, real-time feedback, team cohesiveness, clarity, and transparency.
• You will be paid well for doing what you love so much and will be inspired and welcomed in our community!

Application Instructions

Please email: dianne.hawkridge@psychologycaffe.com.au should you wish to discuss further;

Or email us your expression of interest. www.psychologycaffe.com.au