• St Leonards & Northern Beaches Sydney Based
• Purpose built sound proofed spacious therapy rooms overlooking Gum trees, Sydney Harbour & CBD
• Supportive fun team culture with growth opportunities
• Individual Supervision included from Clinical Director 
• Ongoing Client Engagement & Retention Training included

About You

You are a kind, caring, supportive, compassionate, honest, open, grounded, calm, connected team player who is passionate about “Helping People (your clients, team and others around you) …Well.”. You are also a hardworking, dedicated Professional, who reflects on your work and yourself as a human and genuinely wants to improve and grow both as a human and in your work helping others as a psychologist. You understand what reflective practice is about and value supervision and professional development highly. You often go the extra mile to provide value for your clients every session, you care about your relationships within team, the quality of service you provide, and the outcomes your clients achieve. This is what motivates you.

You appreciate full admin support, and established systems, policies and procedures to free up your time, so that you can do your best clinical work. 

You feel uncomfortable when your clients attend inconsistently, are not engaging in doing the work, or discontinue from therapy prematurely, before they have fully benefitted from what therapy can offer and before they achieve their goals of therapy. You want to ensure your clients commit to therapy for the required duration and consistency of sessions and do the work necessary to get well, stay well and make and maintain the changes necessary for excellent mental health and satisfaction with life.

You are highly organised, but embrace flexibility and openness to working collaboratively with clients in a flexible way to be fully client centred in your work. Although you are motivated by excellent treatment outcomes and client satisfaction, you understand the value of having fun, laughing, a good sense of humour and enjoying your interactions at work with clients and team. You embrace self care and self compassion, you value your health, wellbeing, life outside of work and keep a good work/life balance.

You understand the importance of maintaining a cohesive and supportive team and you enjoy and feel inspired by the team you choose to be a part of. Approachable, you use psychological skills to cope when things get stressful to stay calm & grounded. You are clear and consistent in your communications with compassion for others.

You see a genuine fit between our Values and culture statement on our website and how you live your life.

You may want to become more competent and confident in preventing your clients from premature termination in therapy, or in ACT, CFT, DBT, MI, Schema Therapy, CBT, Psychodynamic Therapy with ongoing Professional Development, training, Individual & Group Supervision.

You develop excellent relationships with your clients, fellow team members and referring GP's. You want to work in a practice with an established reputation for providing excellent treatment outcomes, client satisfaction and customer service.

You like to set goals, work hard and achieve them for yourself and your clients. You like to be acknowledged, thanked, recognised and rewarded well for your hard work and achievements when your clients achieve their goals of therapy and you are achieving excellent treatment outcomes. You hope that over time these will lead to excellent career opportunities to grow and become a senior associate, clinical team leader or principal psychologist. You'd like to be a part of something bigger (our teams' 3 year painted picture vision and 10 year Mt Everest goals of helping 25,000 people...well by 2034).

About our Rooms

Our Practice has 2 locations: 1. St leonards (Sydney's North Shore just 10 minutes walk from the train station, 2 minutes from the bus stop and major shops, cafe's, restaraunts, coles, pubs, yoga, pilates) & 2. Manly Vale, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, just 5 minutes’ drive from Mosman and Manly. We are 100 metres walk from the main road, the B1 bus stop, café’s, gyms, yoga studios, woollies and shops so you can easily access the practice via public transport, grab a coffee, lunch, do your weekly food shop or go to the gym/do yoga. We also have ample all-day parking available on street nearby Manly Vale & parking on site in St leonard's for team and closeby for clients. North facing, the 4 therapy rooms in Manly Vale are purpose built, have wall to ceiling windows with an abundance of natural light, looking over large gum trees. In St leonards the 5 Therapy rooms are purpose built, have large windows with an abundance of natural light, looking over large gum trees, Sydney Harbour, the Sydney CBD and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Therapy rooms have been custom built for therapy, are large, spacious, fully sound proofed with air conditioning. There is a kitchen and spare area to work from or chat away from the waiting room.

About The Role, Practice and Us

The role would suit a Registered Psychologist with or without an endorsement in Clinical or Counselling Psychology. Suitably qualified and experienced overseas applicants who have completed their overseas skills assessment, and are registered with AHPRA, are invited to apply.

We have the capacity to nurture, grow and develop team members with all levels of experience.   

Unlike some private practices, we offer a career progression pathway for our psychology team to ensure their continued growth as practitioners. We want to work with our team to help them achieve their highest potential at work. 

ST & A Psychology is a well-established (since 2005) Group Private Psychology Practice based in St Leonards & Sydney's Northern Beaches, with 9 individual therapy rooms, reception, waiting rooms, Kitchenettes and toilet facilities. The practice brings quality individual, relationship and family therapy to adults, children, and adolescents with a broad range of issues including disorders of behaviour (odd, adhd), adjustment, mood, anxiety, PTSD/trauma, psychosis, personality, addiction, as well as problems with parenting, grief, self esteem, relating, body image/eating disorders, stress, pain, identity, and satisfaction with life.

Our Practice prides itself on building strong therapeutic relationships with our clients, having excellent client retention rates (so your clients do not prematurely terminate therapy before fully benefitting) and strong working relationships with our referrers along with excellent treatment outcomes, fantastic client satisfaction feedback, and customer service excellence. Most clients of the service are referred under Medicare's Better Access Scheme, whilst some claim through private health or pay out of their pocket.   

Due to excellent treatment outcomes and client satisfaction and our growth as a practice, we are now seeking a Principal psychologist to better suport the growing team and help run the practice.  

Our mission is to “Help people…Well.”TM We strive to be the leading private psychology practice on the Northern Beaches and North Shore of Sydney and the Employer of Choice. We pride ourselves on having a family friendly, highly professional and supportive environment.

We value our team members and invest in them heavily. Knowing that investing in you as a team member will pay back in terms of your hard work, passion, commitment and dedication to delivering the best service to our clients and referrers and supporting our team. We reward our team with competitive packages and a wide range of benefits in recognition of this. We celebrate birthdays, do bi monthly social evets like rock climbing, sailing on a yacht and coffees and beach walks. We also have an annual Xmas party.  

Job Description:

This is a full time role. We are seeking a Senior Psychologist to join us as a Principal Psychologist to become a valued and respected, integral, member of this growing team. 

As the Principal Psychologist You Will:

Work 5 days per week and split your time between both our practice locations. Be experienced in private practice work of at least 6 years across many presentations from children and parent work to adolescents, and adults.

Be Fully Registered as a Psychologist with AHPRA and registered to provide Medicare Psychology items. 

Lead the Clinical Team, work alongside the Practice Manager and report directly to the Clinical Director to run the practice.

Help recruit, position, on-board, support, manage, review and supervise Psychologists. You’d be the go to person around clinical issues and risk issues when a team member needs advice/direction/support.  

Be experienced in CBT, ACT, Mindfulness based therapies and  have some understanding of Schema, MI, Psychodynamic and Compassion Focussed Therapy Models with a willingness to incorporate these into your practice and Supervision.

Be excellent at writing and reviewing psychologists reports for Medicare Better Access

Have excellent Client engagement, Client retention, treatment outcomes and service evaluations, ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships with team and referers.

Be able to lead in Team meetings and engage team well in supervision, 12-24 month support space reviews and management of their accountability.

Embrace and follow the Team Culture statement and Practice Values.

Have an excellent work ethic.

Have excellent Client retention numbers.

Be committed to the Practice over time in challenging and fun times and have an excellent ability to handle feedback and respond positively over time for growth and improvement.

Show gratitiude, willingness, openness, flexibility and commitment and be rewarded for this.  

Assess and treat clients (implement psychological therapy), over 5 days Monday to Friday (16-18 client sessions per week in total on average) over 44 full weeks of consulting (2 weeks of public holidays, 6 weeks of annual and professional development leave).  As well as liaise with other treating health professionals in person, by phone, email and reports.

Although evidence-based approaches (particularly ACT, CFT, DBT, Narrative, CBT, Schema and MI) within an integrative model is valued, and at times required, freedom to choose the modalities you wish to work with is encouraged. 

Fulfill Level 3 KPI’s as per the Career Progression Pathway.

Conduct/run all Individual and some Group Supervision sessions with all level 1, 2 and 3 psychologists in the practice, ensuring adequate supervision and support is provided:- So that a) all Psychologists have a safe, confidential supervision space to discuss anything personal or work related, with a consistency of attendance at individual and group sessions. And b) clinicians can work towards achieving their individual supervision goals in developing and growing as clinicians/therapists.

Create an open door policy and open space around the practice kitchens, hallways, therapy rooms, for psychologists and staff to come to you in an ad hoc way for “on the fly” help and support to cope with their client loads, client issues, client safety issues, clinical issues, personal things.

Help support, manage, guide and lead all level 1, 2 and 3 Psychologists in the practice to to work towards feeling competent and confident over time in their work, maintain a healthy work life balance, perform in team meetings, client retention meetings, GP meet and Greets and Supervision sessions; and, achieve excellent treatment outcomes, client satisfaction feedback surveys and client retention rates.

Supervise/help all level 1, 2 and 3 Psychologists in writing professional helpful (re content and structure) timely reports and file maintenance (for a 85% pass on file audits).

The successful applicant will enjoy excellent remuneration, individual supervision/case consultation in ACT, CFT, CBT Schema, Psychodynamic and MI Models, and, excellent management support so you can focus on your own excellent clinical work, and management of the team & practice in a truly supportive, warm, fun, caring, experienced clinical and admin team.

Referrals are provided, however an active approach to meeting with, calling and liaising with referrers to market yourself and the practice with other team members will be necessary. 

Essential Criteria: 

 Desireable Criteria: 

How to Apply

Visit http://www.stapsychology.com , read our values statement and watch the video on the join our team page 

https://stapsychology.com/join-our-team/ 

Please apply with a CV and cover letter addressing all selection criteria, and why you believe there would be a good fit between you and us (taking into consideration the join our team video and our values on the join our team page of our website) emailed to [email protected] 

Please direct any questions to Simon Turmanis (Clinical Director) on 0403 639 580. 

Closing Date: Suitably qualified and experienced applicants will be interviewed as applications are received.