- Full time / part time opportunities available
- Flexible Working Arrangements
ABOUT ACCESS YOUR SUPPORTS
Access Your Supports is a Geelong based organization that provides support and services to eligible participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).With offices in Geelong, Colac and Mildura and over 190 employees, AYS is dedicated to ensuring participants have choice and control to best assist them to achieve their NDIS
goals.
AYS Director Ralph Menchise has brought together a team of experienced professionals who are passionate about positive participant outcomes. Not only does Access Your Supports deliver quality support services and empower participants to achieve their life goals with the services available to them under the NDIS, Access Your Supports will also work closely with participants to implement a plan that will work.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Psychologist will report directly to the Senior Psychologist and will optionally hold the status of board-approved supervisor with AHPRA, with the opportunity to provide supervision to provisional psychologists within the organization. The Psychologist will maintain a caseload and work with participants and their families to achieve therapeutic outcomes. The Psychologist will be experienced in delivering a range of psychological assessments and interventions and working within both 1:1 and group therapy settings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide psychological services to NDIS participants, including frequent engagement with relevant stakeholders such as participant families and care teams.
- Deliver psychological assessments.
- Deliver psychological interventions including both in individual and group therapy settings.
- If the Psychologist holds board supervisor status with AHPRA, they will provide clinical support and ongoing supervision to AYS Provisional Psychologists.
ABOUT YOU
The successful candidate will have:
- Professional qualifications in psychology and current general registration with AHPRA as a Psychologist.
- (Optional) Hold board-approved supervisor status and prior experience delivering supervision to Provisional Psychologists.
- (Optional) hold a relevant endorsement in Clinical, Counseling, Health, or
Educational/Developmental psychology.
- Experience delivering services across the age span and working with multidisciplinary care teams and stakeholders, ideally within the NDIS space.
- Excellent knowledge of psychological assessment and intervention.
Highly regarded
- Strong knowledge and understanding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and disability industry.
- Strong knowledge of child development.
- Excellent clinical skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Valid Australian Driver’s License.
- Cleared Victorian Working with Children Check (WWCC) or current VIT Registration.
- Cleared National NDIS Worker Screen Check.
In applying for this role, you will be subject to a National NDIS Worker Screen Check. From 1 February 2021 any staff member deemed to be working in a ‘risk-assessed role’ or at the request of management, must undergo a NDIS Worker Screening Check before commencing.
Access Your Supports is an Equal Opportunity Employer who provides an inclusive work environment and embraces the diverse talent of its people. We are committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and/or expressions.
We value Empowerment, Integrity and Respect.
Suited candidates will be contacted before the submission deadline.
For any additional information on the role or any query you may have please email ays_hr@ays.com.au and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
