The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne – Parkville VIC

3d ago , from The Royal Children's Hospital

The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300, 000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is availablehere.

- 2 x 0.4FTE part time, fixed term positions available
- Exciting chance to join a specialist multidisciplinary team
- Challenging and rewarding work environmen

About the Role:

The Department of Adolescent Medicine, Eating Disorders Service has 2 part time, fixed term positions availabe:

- 0.4FTE from 30/11/2026 until 23/01/2028, required work days for this role are Monday & Tuesday





0.4FTE from 18/01/2027 until 23/01/2028, required work days for this role are Tuesday and Wednesday

Applicants wanting to cover the entire 0.8FTE are also encourage to apply, noting the different start dates.

You will be responsible for providing excellent evidence- based clinical care to adolescents with restrictive eating disorders – anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder while providing Psychological and family assessments and interventions within the outpatient and inpatient Eating Disorder Clinic. You are required to maintain clinical documentation and record client contacts and outcomes measure to support the team activity levels while working collaboratively with other clinical disciplines within the team and external services to provide high quality inter-disciplinary care.

Classification for this position will range from Grade 2, Year 1 (PK1) to Grade 3, Year 4 (PL4) - (FTE Base Salary $94,478.80 - $123,905.60 p.a. + super, pro rata for part-time)

What you’ll achieve:

Grade 2:

- Purposefully and expertly engage patients and their families in mental health care, as per the Eating Disorders Service model




- Work collaboratively with other clinical disciplines within the team and external services to provide high quality inter-disciplinary care.
- Complete mandatory client contacts, outcome measures and report activity levels (statistics) to support team/s meeting KPI obligations.
- Maintain clinical documentation, records and data and participate in teaching opportunities internally and externally.
- Support junior clinical staff and psychology interns alongside their primary supervisor in their patient management and clinical reasoning with complex patients.

Grade 3:

- Purposefully and expertly engage patients and their families in mental health care, as per the Eating Disorders Service model
- Work collaboratively with other clinical disciplines within the team and external services to provide high quality inter-disciplinary care.
- Manage a complex and varied clinical caseload providing high level of clinical expertise with independent decision making
- Complete mandatory client contacts, outcome measures and report activity levels (statistics) to support team/s meeting KPI obligations.
- Provide high quality clinical supervision and/or consultation to staff and students, and provide regular, constructive and developmental feedback to team.
- Develop effective time management skills to balance clinical requirements and to contribute to continuous improvement activities.
- Provide professional and operational/administrative support to the Service Lead as required.

Your skills and experience:

📌 Psychologist\ Senior Psychologist (Melbourne)
🏢 The Royal Children'S Hospital Melbourne
📍 Melbourne