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Career Opportunities
Strong Minds Psychology are looking to grow our diverse and dynamic team.
We are looking for team members from a variety of allied health, mental health, and positive behaviour support disciplines to join our practice. We value sharing knowledge in our workplace, and thus strive towards multi-disciplinary opportunities both within and outside our clinics.
We welcome applications from Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Mental Health Social Workers, Counsellors, Mental Health Practitioners, and Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners.
We offer provisional psychologist training opportunities, via university placements in 5th or 6th year, or via the 5+1 internship program. We are a training clinic, so understand the developmental stages of growth, confidence and competence, and the support that is required along the way to empower people in their careers.
If you are looking for the opportunity to join a committed and supportive team, contact us for a position description and for more details.
Supervision & Placement
As AHPRA registered supervisors, Lisa Archer and Toby Mizzi offer supervision to provisional and fully registered psychologists. Supervision can also be provided by our experienced clinicians to professionals from other allied health or educational settings. Bookings can be arranged on a regular or consulting basis. Group supervision opportunities can also be facilitated.
Placement opportunities have been developed with Monash University, ACU, Melbourne University, and Latrobe University psychology students, and partnerships are welcome with other universities.
The SMP 5+1 internship program is well established, with plans readily approved by AHPRA, interns provided with the opportunity to address all competencies required, & work with a supportive team.
Students who undertake a placement at SMP will be able to engage in a diverse range of learning opportunities including:
· Psychological intervention (individual and group) across a range of theoretical models and approaches (e.g., general counselling, CBT, ACT, person-centered) with a wide variety of presenting concerns
· Psychological assessments including cognitive (e.g., WPPSI-IV, WISC-V, WAIS-IV), educational (e.g., WIAT-III, PEP-3), and adaptive/behavioural (e.g., Vineland-3, ABAS, Conners3)
· Psychological report writing including assessment reports and
· Supporting clients through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) including preparing NDIS reviews
· Key administrative duties including using client management software and scoring of assessments
We are able to take on both 5th and 6th year students, with your experience, developmental needs, and personal strengths and weaknesses taken into consideration.
Our team is values driven, so if you feel connected to our values of Community, Strengths Focus, Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability, a placement with SMP is for you.
Placement Story – by Holly Moreton
“I commenced my placement with Lisa Archer and the team at Strong Minds Psychology in February 2019. Within the last eleven months of placement, I have been provided with an incredibly diverse range of opportunities in a variety of settings.
Some of the work has included administrative duties, one on one counselling and intervention implementation for a range of presenting concerns across the lifespan, assessments across the lifespan for neurodevelopmental differences and learning difficulties, work within schools to support students and teachers, and small group interventions.
This placement has been the perfect setting for myself as an early career Psychologist to develop my competencies in current areas where I feel comfortable, such as working with younger children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, as well as diversifying my practice with adolescent and adult engagement which I had previously had less experience with. All this has been completed under the guidance and supervision of Lisa Archer and Toby Mizzi, alongside a wonderful team of diverse clinicians.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the open, communicative and collaborative team within Strong Minds, as well as the close knit community setting with which the placement is set. I feel that working within this space has allowed me to develop positive relationships with colleagues, clinicians and the community, to provide the most sensitive and appropriate treatment plans for all clients. I look forward to continuing my own development at Strong Minds Psychology in years to come.”