Community Clinician - Mental Health, Flexible Hours

Gippsland Health Alliance; Traralgon; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $9,000 per ann.

Meals/Entertainment benefit up to $2,-

Professional development encouragement

Staff Wellbeing Centre access

Discounted gym membership via Fitness/

Job summary

Latrobe Regional Health in Gippsland, Victoria, is seeking a Community Clinician 26+ to join its Community Mental Health team on a full-time or part-time ongoing basis. The role provides high-quality, recovery-focused mental health care to adults and works within a multidisciplinary team.

The role includes acute and routine assessments, safety planning, evidence-based interventions, and care coordination with consumers, carers and support networks, using trauma-informed and person-centred

Qualifications

• Qualified as Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Psychologist or Occupational Therapist with appropriate AHPRA registration or AASW Eligibility.
• Minimum two years’ post-registration experience in mental health (desirable).
• Post-graduate qualification in mental health or willingness to complete if successful.
• Assessment, clinical reasoning and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work flexibly within a complex, multidisciplinary environment.
• Excellent communication, documentation and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Commitment to reflective practice, continuous professional development, and providing high-quality, person-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct timely acute and routine clinical assessments based on risk, urgency, distress and disability including safety planning and triage using the National Mental Triage Scale.
• Deliver evidence-based, trauma informed and culturally sensitive treatment interventions, including pharmacological and therapeutic approaches within scope.
• Work within a recovery-orientated framework, collaborating with consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary team to develop care plans, facilitate access to services and support discharge planning.
• Provide individual, group and family-based clinical interventions, psychoeducation and ongoing review of care goals and outcomes.
• Maintain comprehensive, accurate and sequential clinical documentation and ensure compliance with legislative, policy and data integrity requirements.

Skills

Assessment

Clinical reasoning

Interpersonal skills

Documentation

Education

AHPRA/AASW eligible

Job description

Latrobe Regional Health in Gippsland, Victoria, is seeking a Community Clinician 26+ to join its Community Mental Health team on a full-time or part-time ongoing basis. The role provides high-quality, recovery-focused mental health care to adults and works within a multidisciplinary team.

The role includes acute and routine assessments, safety planning, evidence-based interventions, and care coordination with consumers, carers and support networks, using trauma-informed and person-centred