Psychologist

Updated: March 06, 2024 01:36 AM GMT

Full-time Job in Townsville, Queensland

Queensland Government

Townsville City QLD, Australia

The role of the Youth Detention Centre Psychologist is to provide assessment and intervention services to young people in a trauma-informed, evidence-based, and culturally safe manner. In carrying out these duties and responsibilities you will be required to lead and facilitate multi-disciplinary collaboration across both internal and external agencies, to support effective and proactive communication in order to achieve positive outcomes for young people.

As a Youth Detention Centre Psychologist, You Will Specifically
• Coordinate and facilitate the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency suicide risk management process for young people, which will include collaboratively developing and reviewing safety intervention strategies and suicide prevention plans to ensure these accurately reflect stakeholder input and are available to a range of stakeholders for case planning purposes.
• Apply independent professional judgement to a caseload of young people with severe and complex mental... More Detail