CDU - Senior Clinical Psychologist - Child Development Unit - 0.8 FTE - temporary 12-14 months

Job no: 902881
Work type: Part time
Location: Adelaide CBD
Categories: Allied and Scientific Health, Mental Health
  • Women's and Children's Health Network, Sub-Acute and Allied Health, North Adelaide (5006)
  • Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 - $104,180.00 to $111,746.00
  • Employment Part time - Term Contract (temporary up to 31 Aug 2026)

 

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Child Development Unit as a Senior Clinical Psychologist, where you will be responsible for:

  • Provide specialist clinical psychology assessment, diagnosis, and consultancy for children with complex developmental differences within the Child Development Unit and outreach services.
  • Apply expert, evidence-based approaches with professional independence, reflective practice, and continual integration of new techniques.
  • Advise management on service development, practice improvements, and redesign in response to clinical demands and client needs.
  • Offer specialist consultation and support to community and regional psychologists across South Australian child development services.
  • Collaborate with families, multidisciplinary teams, and community agencies to ensure integrated, evidence-based client care and ongoing management recommendations.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

  • Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification and general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia and registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
  • Ability to undertake specialist assessment of children with complex developmental problems and to understand highly complex clinical presentations by applying knowledge of child development processes, theory and practice.
  • Demonstrated broad experience working as a Clinical Psychologist within the paediatric field with a minimum of 5 years clinical experience.
  • Proven experience in delivering high quality and safe care consistent with the National Safety and Quality Health Care Service Standards. (Mandatory for all clinical positions.)
  • Highly developed verbal and written communication skills across all levels of service provision with demonstrated skills in problem solving, negotiation and decision making at the organisational and individual level.

What WCHN Can Offer You

  • Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
  • Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
  • Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
  • Free public transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital workers to and from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Note: Does not apply to network community sites.
  • Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
  • Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia.  We offer:

  • specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
  • state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
  • community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
  • specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Enquiries:

Jacob Hall

Position: Administrative Manager

Phone: 81617287

E-mail: jacob.hall@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 27/06/2025 – 11:55pm

Useful Links

AHP3 - Clinical Psychologist - Role Description.pdf

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Categories

SA Health

Locations

Metropolitan South Australia

Work type

Local Health Network / Business