Mental Health Practitioner

CatholicCare Sydney; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional Growth

Work-Life Balance

Tax Savings

Generous Leave

Inclusive

Wellbeing

Job summary

CatholicCare Sydney is recruiting for a child/young person specialist role in Fairfield, SW Sydney. The role delivers trauma-informed mental health care to victim-survivors of FDSV for up to 2 years, with a focus on accessibility, inclusion, and culturally safe practice.

You will collaborate with Anglicare and other services to coordinate care and referrals. Applicants need a tertiary degree in psychology, counselling, social work, or nursing, 2+ years’ experience with children, professional

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience working with children and young people essential.
• Registration with relevant professional body (ACA PACFA APHRA AASW) required.
• NSW Driver’s Licence and Working with Children Check (WWCC) required.

Responsibilities

• Provide trauma-informed mental health care to child/young person victim-survivors of FDSV for up to 2 years.
• Ensure services are welcoming, accessible, compassionate, person-centred and culturally safe.
• Deliver evidence-based psychological therapies and wellbeing interventions.
• Collaborate with Anglicare colleagues and external services for coordinated care.
• Educate clients to meet their needs and participate in supervision.

Skills

Trauma-informed care

Verbal and written communication

Collaboration

Education

Tertiary degree in psychology, counselling, social work, nursing or similar

Job description

• Hybrid working arrangement to suit your lifestyle
• Generous Salary + Super + generous Salary Packaging
• Based in Fairfield, South Western Sydney

Anglicare and CatholicCare are collaborating to deliver an exciting new and life changing program called Supporting Recovery. As mission-aligned organisations, Anglicare and CatholicCare care about people and our mission is to make a genuine difference in the lives of people in the community.

The Supporting Recovery program will deliver Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV) trauma-informed mental health care services within Southwest Sydney to support victim-survivors in their longer-term recovery.

This role will report to a Clinical Lead and will be a full-time position.

The role will be based in Fairfield LGAs, there may be some requirement to work outside of standard business hours depending on client need.

This role is a child/young person specialist position.

Key elements of the service include:

• Victim-survivors of FDSV and their families have access for up to 2 years to evidence-based trauma informed mental health care.
• Provision of psychological therapies and other appropriate wellbeing and social interventions.
• Collaborations with other services to facilitate coordination of care and assist with referral pathways.
• Community engagement activities to increase community awareness.

About the Role

Some of your responsibilities will be:

• Providing trauma-informed mental health care services to child/ young person victim-survivors of FDSV for up to 2 years
• Ensuring services are welcoming, accessible, compassionate, person-centred, trauma informed culturally safe and inclusive of all who present. Including perspectives of First Nations peoples, people with disability, members of LGBTQIA+ communities and people from CALD communities
• Ensuring information and education that is delivered meets the needs of clients
• Actively participating in individual and group supervision
• Effectively collaborate with Anglicare colleagues when appropriate
• Ensuring services are consistent with the Supporting Recovery Model of Care

About you

To be a successful candidate you will have:

• Tertiary degree qualification applicable to role – i.e. psychology, counselling, social work, nursing or similar
• 2+ years’ experience working with children and young people and working in Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence setting is essential
• Registration with relevant professional body – I.e. minimum level 2 ACA, PACFA provisional, APHRA, AASW mental health social worker accreditation
• Previous experience working in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) contexts
• Established experience working with clients experiencing mental health challenges and FDSV (mandatory)
• Demonstrated high level verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to appraise and critically reflect on clinical work and participate in clinical supervision
• Current NSW Driver’s Licence and WWCC.

About us

• Professional Growth: Tailored professional development opportunities to support your career ambitions
• Work-Life Balance: Embrace flexibility and align your work and your life to enable you to thrive in a Family Inclusive accredited organisation,
• Tax Savings: Maximise your income with generous salary packaging, reducing your tax and increasing your take-home pay
• Generous Leave: Above-award annual and personal/carers leave, extended parental leave, and additional leave for celebration and graduation day
• Inclusive: Join a friendly and supportive organisation that values your contributions and voice
• Wellbeing: Free access to a premium mindfulness app, EAP counselling, yearly flu vaccinations, and a variety of wellbeing activities to make your workday more enjoyable

Choose a workplace that cares about your growth, happiness, and overall well-being. Join us today!

Applications for this position close on 3 October 2026. Please submit your application as soon as possible as shortlisting and interviewing for this position will commence immediately.

Need More Information? Please contact Jordyn Madden - Practice Manager - [e-mail]

People are at the core of everything we do: from supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of our clients to the nurturing and development of our staff and their career aspirations.

CatholicCare Sydney is a leading not-for-profit and the social services agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, supporting people from all walks of life. We’re an organisation that promotes diversity and inclusion, and commits to the growth and wellbeing of our staff, empowering them to make a positive change to the community.

We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, identities, abilities, and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, member of the LGBTQI+ community, and people living with disabilities.

CatholicCare requires the preferred applicant to undertake a National Criminal History Record Check prior to employment, and for some roles, a Working with Children Check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check may be required.