Job Description:

• Role Title: Clinical Psychologist - GambleAware

• Role Type: Fix-term part-time (24 hours per week till 30 June 2026 with the possibility of extension)

• Role Grade: Clinical Psychologist Year 1-5

• Department and Location: GambleAware

• Salary: $109,247 - $133,156 (Pro-rata) + Super + Salary packaging

Better and fairer care. Always.
We are St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services.

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857, our +30,000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs.

About the Role:

• Conduct psychological assessments to support patient diagnosis, care, and management, including evaluating suitability for GambleAware services, delivered via telehealth or in person.

• Provide comprehensive, individualised, and measurable treatment plans and interventions that are time-limited and based on empirically validated treatments, and review their effectiveness using outcomes and consumer feedback.

• Facilitate safe and comprehensive communication of client and operational information to GambleAware partner organisations, maintaining high-standard medical record documentation compliant with medico-legal requirements.

• Actively participate in research, quality improvement, service evaluation, and reporting, including contributing to the development and implementation of projects concerning gambling disorder.

• Receive and provide clinical supervision appropriate to level of training, including supervision of postgraduate provisional psychologists by Board Approved Supervisors.

• Actively promote GambleAware South Eastern Region services through community engagement activities, while working the required hours (Thursdays 10:00–18:30, Saturdays 08:30–17:00, plus one additional negotiated weekday).

About You:

• AHPRA registration and endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist, or progressing to same through an approved registrar program, along with 'Board Approved Supervisor' status to provide supervision to provisional psychologists on placement, or willingness to undertake Board-approved supervisor training

• Demonstrated experience in providing evidence-based psychological assessments

• Demonstrated expertise in providing evidence-based psychological therapies including cognitive behaviour therapy and mindfulness-based approaches for gambling or problematic behaviour.

• Experienced in the delivery of group treatment models

• Experienced in the review, evaluation, and tailoring of practice as a means to continuing to improve clinical interventions.

Why Work at St Vincent’s?

• Join us on our mission to provide care to all, including the most at-risk people in our community

• Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport

• Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank

• Access to a government salary sacrifice program to make a proportion of your salary tax-free

• Financial support for educational development, scholarship programs, paid study leave

About the Hospital:
In this role, you will be based at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst.

• A busy inner-city hospital in a beautiful location

• Surrounded by great cafes, galleries, and theatres, parks, nightlife, and nearby glorious beaches

• A place of expert clinical care for at-risk people

• Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes, many of which are located on-campus

• Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer care, AIDS/HIV, respiratory medicine, mental health, homeless health, drug & alcohol services, and correctional health

Pre-employment Checks:
Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.
 

Equal Opportunity:
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.
 

How to Apply:
The closing date for applications is 16 December 2025. Please note that the position may close earlier if an adequate number of suitable applicants apply.

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting how your interest, skills, and experience align with the About You, as listed above.

Further information please contact GambleAware Program Manager, Emma Hamilton on [email protected]

Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [email protected]

View Reconciliation Action Plan

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