The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Grade 2 or 3 Clinical or Health Psychologist

Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Provide clinical/health psychology services on the Trauma units and across acute, subacute, inpatient and outpatient units.
• Based at Parkville (City) campus
• 0.42 EFT (32 hours per fortnight) contract 12 months from 1/9/25-29/8/26

Allied Health - Psychology are a dynamic team comprised of neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and health psychologists. There is a strong culture of clinical research in both teams with a number of research projects underway.

Your new role:

• Complete psychological assessments with admitted patients experiencing a variety of medical conditions.
• Provide psychological interventions to assist admitted patients with mental health symptoms, coping with their medical condition and engaging with treatment.
• Assist the treating team in understanding the patients in their care, including how to work effectively with the patient.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to achieve high standards of patient care.
• Whilst the role is predominantly based in Trauma, all our psychologists work flexibly across all the psychology services according to demand. As a result, the role also involves working across the hospital with inpatients and outpatients and in subacute and acute services. 
• Working in a dynamic, collaborative, people-centred and supportive Psychology team

About you:

• You have a patient-centred approach to your work.
• You enjoy working within a multidisciplinary team in an inpatient setting and have a collaborative working style.
• You want a role that has variety and that involves supporting people with medical conditions.
• You have effective communication skills and a passion for continued professional development.
• You are an AHPRA registered clinical or health psychologist with a passion for public health.   

Benefit of working with The Royal Melbourne Hospital:

• In this role, you will make a difference in the lives of people experiencing cognitive and mental health difficulties.  
• Enjoy the support of and engagement with the wider Allied Health and RMH teams.
• Education opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Salary packaging, onsite car parking and, close to public transport.

Interested?

If you are looking for a new role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact us.

We will be actively recruiting throughout the advertising period, so please do not hesitate to apply. We will close recruitment as soon as we have an adequate pool of candidates.

Please contact us for the Position Description

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

The RMH stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.