Psychologist – Adult caseload Recovery Station

JOB DESCRIPTION

  • Rewarding and Diverse Adult, Community Caseload
  • Opportunity to complete Behaviour Support Plans as well as provide
    ongoing support, assessments, and therapeutic interventions
  • Flexible Working Hours to Suit Your Work-Life Balance
  • Ongoing Training, Development & Personalised CPD
  • Specialised Office Support to Assist with Admin and Scheduling

Our “Why”

Recovery Station exists to empower individuals to live a quality life. We believe in creating the ideal work environment for you because when you are happy, healthy, well-skilled and fulfilled, you’re in the best position to have a positive impact on everyone around you.  

Key Traits of Recovery Station:  

  • We love what we do because everyone’s role contributes to helping our clients live a more independent, empowered life
  • Collaborating with passionate, likeminded colleagues creates connection and facilitates personal and professional growth
  • Keeping personalised care at the heart of what we do challenges us to seek new and innovative ways to deliver life-changing service

Joining Recovery Station means aligning with a company that believes in empowering you and your future.

How We Make an Impact

Recovery Station provides community and clinic based allied health services, with a strong focus on disability and senior health. For nearly 20 years we have consistently grown and now proudly offer support to people with diverse needs across the Greater Hunter, Central Coast, Sydney and Illawarra regions.

Together, our passionate, multidisciplinary team of Psychologists, OTs, Mental Health OT’s, Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, Exercise Physiologists, Dietitians and Allied Health Assistants collaboratively share their knowledge and experience to holistically design an individualised service to help improve the quality of life for people living with a disability or looking to age as independently as possible. 

How We Foster a Positive Team

To support a happy and healthy team, we like to listen to you and understand what you value most. 
Thus far, we’ve learned that our team benefits from: 

  • Flexibility so you can fit us in around your personal life eg family, sport, or other work. 
  • You deserve remuneration that matches your experience plus the option to stretch for RDO’s and financial bonuses if you choose
  • We trust you to work from home, or in the office, via telehealth and we give you a laptop and pay a phone/ data allowance to support this
  • You will be assisted daily by a member of our administrative team, who’s role is dedicated to ensuring you travel as efficiently between appointments and compliance pieces such as funding plans are followed up for you. Travel is reimbursed at $0.96/km.
  • An Employee Assistance Program is available to provide external, confidential support  
  • To celebrate success and bring us together as a team, we have a fun wellbeing program that involves monthly social events such as our Mental Health Games, cooking and art classes, trivia and barefoot bowls 

From a professional development perspective: 

  • Your thorough Orientation will be supported by ongoing one on ones with your Supervisor to discuss goals personal to you via a CPD plan. For examply do you want to learn about more complex mental health presentations or move into leadership? This is when you can chat about what you’d personally like to achieve
  • These will be complimented with team meetings with your fellow OT’s so you can learn during in-services sessions, share ideas, resources and stay abreast of any industry updates 
  • We love facilitating development pathways for clinicians seeking career progression and added responsibility via either supervising students/ grads/ junior staff, increased complexity of caseload or involvement in management procedures depending on what avenue you’d like to explore 
  • Formal and informal liaison opportunities with other members of our MDT to broaden your clinical knowledge and provide holistic care to our clients
  • All-company training day in where we bring the entire business together and invite external presenters for each discipline 
  • Mental health debrief sessions with your team to discuss your week, celebrate wins and share your ideas and feelings in a safe space

The Role

Day to day you will provide a comprehensive range of mental health services for individuals in the community. The clinical skills you may bring to the role will work in achieving an optimal state of personal, social and emotional wellbeing, as defined by the individual needs of each person.
You will achieve this by working with them to identify barriers to optimal functioning through interventions that focus on enhancing existing skills, creating opportunities, promoting wellness, remediating or restoring skills, modifying or adapting the environment or activity, and preventing relapse.

Logistically, we have a waterfront office in Toronto with convenient free parking and the role can be structured as full-time or part-time. Depending where you are based, we can tailor your caseload to service clients around Maitland/ Newcastle or Lake Macquarie. You will have someone assigned to you in admin to assist with scheduling appointments and they will work with you to ensure you aren’t zigzagging around the Hunter and you’ll have clients to see close to home. 

This role will provide trauma informed, person-centred, evidence-based interventions and support for people in our community experiencing moderate to severe mental health presentations including: acute and chronic psychotic disorders; schizophrenia; bipolar; generalised anxiety; depression; PTSD; alcohol and drug use disorders; mixed anxiety and depression; dissociative (conversion) disorder; sleep problems and OCD. 

You will be competent in writing comprehensive reports based on your advanced clinical understanding, application of various clinical assessments and implementation of appropriate interventions to address prioritised needs. You will also have experience in conducting functional behavioural assessments, gathering behaviour data, and developing positive behavioural support plans (with and without the use of restrictive practice) for people with disability.

Qualifications  

  • Be an AHPRA registered Psychologist and/or possess a Behaviour Support Practitioner number with the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Commission
  • Current driver’s license with use of own vehicle
  • Be willing to provide or obtain a current WWCC and NDIS Workers Screening 

We are also requesting that the successful candidate be comfortable
following NSW Health COVID and flu vaccination requirements.

The Next Steps
We hope the above has moved you to want to learn more about us, our mission and how you could fit into our team. Below you can take a lot at some highlights from our latest training day and there’s more of us available on our social media + Q&A’s on our Youtube. 

If we haven’t covered something that’s important to you, contact us today on 0493 469 501 or at [email protected].

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