Role Title: Literature Review Intern: Women's Only Mental Health Wards
Organisation: South Metropolitan Health Service
Internship Period: Summer (November - December)
Location: Fiona Stanley Hospital or Cockburn
This project offers a McCusker intern the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the development of Australia’s first public women-only mental health inpatient service at Cockburn Health. The intern will conduct a focused literature review examining how women-only inpatient settings influence sexual safety, perceived safety, and wellbeing outcomes for women with complex trauma. The findings will directly inform the service’s trauma-informed Model of Care and its future evaluation framework, providing the intern with valuable experience in applied health research, gender-responsive service design, and policy translation within a major public health system.
WA Health is Western Australia’s public health system. With a State spanning over 2.5 million square kilometres, it is the largest area in the world covered by a single health authority. Our strategic priorities are focused on ensuring that Western Australians receive safe, high quality and accessible health care, no matter where they live.