Clinical Psychologist
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Clinical Psychologist
Puāwai and community rehabilitation centre
Wakari hospital, Dunedin
Salary - $77,478 - $ 111,719 + Kiwisaver
Permanent 0.8 FTE (32 hours per week) opportunity
Excellent opportunity to work towards Neuropsychology Scope of Practice
Are you a clinical psychologist with a neuropsychology interest? This is an excellent physical and neuro rehabilitation unit where you could work across both inpatient and outpatient services.
You would be part of a greater psychology team and have the support of the wider allied health, nursing and medical team.
All that and you can have 1 day off to explore the majestic south.
About us
Puāwai rehabilitation unit is a 12-bed inpatient unit that works mainly with adults ( The patient groups include predominantly stroke and TBI, but also a range of other presentations including tumours, hypoxic brain injury, functional neurological disorder and orthopaedic injury.
The team is an experienced, fun, dynamic interdisciplinary team providing rehabilitation to our diverse patients. This role will have some community element to it too, working within our community rehab team to provide support to those on an intensive rehabilitation journey in the community.
We take pride in supporting our staff to grow and we enable ongoing professional development including regular team in-services, senior staff mentoring, peer review and access to course and conference funding.
Mō te tūranga About the role
Your clients, who have neurological and / or physical disorders, will benefit from your experience and ability to work in a wider interdisciplinary team, where you will be responsible for assessing the clients’ needs, and assisting them to meet their rehabilitation goals.
You will be carrying out neuropsychological assessments and occasional capacity assessments. You will be working within the rehabilitation team to design and deliver cognitive rehabilitation, psychological support and behavioural support interventions.
The post has an attractive study leave allocation for continuing professional development.
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