Psychologist - Mental Health

Monash Health is a great place to work

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care across south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations; via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.

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Psychologist - Adult Mental Health 

Clayton Adult Inpatient Unit at Monash Health Medical Centre is a great place to work.  

Embark on a rewarding career and be part of a team where your dedication makes a difference in people’s lives.  

The Clayton Area Mental Health Service is led by an innovative and supportive leadership team that seeks to provide dynamic and recovery-based model of mental health care that will continue to develop with our growing community in the Southeast growth corridor. Our teams are based in inpatient and community sites and offer collaborative care to clients within our catchment experiencing mental health difficulties. We provide service to the Monash Adult Mental Health Program with comprehensive treatment and support to individuals experiencing complex mental health problems. We strive to deliver high quality recovery-focused client care as a multi-disciplinary team. Our aim is to promote self-efficacy and independence and social inclusion with all the individuals we support. Working in our diverse geographical area, you will enjoy the challenges of working with the complexities of mental health and making a positive difference every day. You will work closely with the range of mental health services including inpatient units, CATT, CCU and PARCS to ensure psychological treatment is coordinated with overall treatment goals.   

About You  

You are energetic and determined and have performed above expectations in your previous roles as a psychologist. You communicate effectively, both written and verbally. Your ideas to improve service delivery are always welcomed as our team is progressive with many research and quality improvement activities. As a dedicated psychologist in public health, you care about patients and deliver quality psychological services. Your track record includes demonstrated success in the following areas: 

• Provide psychological assessments and treatment of complex patient issues and produce high quality reports. 
• Contribute to patient risk management plans in conjunction with multi-disciplinary teams Secondary consultation and supervision of staff and students (if Grade 3).  
• Engage in quality processes of continuous improvement, and research initiatives, Self-driven. 
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills, are an active listener and have well-developed negotiation and influencing abilities used in working with patients and internal and external stakeholders.   

What you need:   

• Current general registration as a psychologist with AHPRA, Working with Children’s Check 
• Proven, significant clinical experience   

What Monash Offers:  

• Genuine career opportunity to influence and shape the role of a psychologist within the team. 
• Support, mentoring and development from a highly experienced and well-regarded leadership team. 
• Satisfaction derived from leading and embedding change to enhance the clinical education offered to psychology staff and post-graduate students. 
• Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base Mentorship & career guidance. 
• Support to attend relevant forums & conferences  A supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies.

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite discounted staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).  

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Brigid Hodgetts, Nurse Manager on 0417 131 752.

Psychologist, Gr 2 Position Description can be found here

Psychologist, Gr 3 Position Description can be found here

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date. 

Applications close: July 4th, 2025