Senior Mental Health Clinician

Austin Health; Melbourne; Vor Ort; AUD 90.000 - 120.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Salary packaging benefits

Wellness initiatives

Onsite childcare

Mentoring and career development

Zusammenfassung

Austin Health is seeking a Senior Mental Health Clinician to deliver high quality clinical care and case management for children and families referred to the Central Child Community Team in Melbourne. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, conduct assessments, develop formulations and provide group work, parent, individual and family interventions to young people with mental health challenges.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.

Qualifikationen

• A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline with current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, and AHPRA registration where necessary.
• Experience working systemically with children and adolescents with mental illness and families.
• Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice with a developmental/systemic perspective.
• Experience in developing individualised service plans for mental health case management and therapy for young people and families.

Aufgaben

• Deliver high quality clinical care and case management within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Undertake assessments, develop formulations and provide interventions (group, parent, individual, and family).
• Provide outreach services to engage families who may struggle to access clinic-based services.
• Contribute to recovery-oriented, person-centred care and collaborative practice.

Kenntnisse

Communication

Time management

Collaboration

Ausbildung

Health-related degree with professional registration (AHPRA)

Jobbeschreibung

Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: 5523

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• Join the Central Infant and Child Community Team at Austin Healthto make an impact on the lives of young people
• Ongoing, part timeopportunity working 30.40 hours per week
• Open to Grade 3 Clinical Psychologists,Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Central Infant and Child Community Team

About the role

As the Senior Mental Health Clinician, you will deliver high quality expert clinical care and case management to children and their families referred to the Central Child Community Team. Working within a multi-disciplinary team you will undertake assessments, develop formulations, and provide case management and clinical interventions including groupwork, parent, individual and family work to children presenting with mental health difficulties and their families. The team offers outreach services to children, their families or carers who may struggle to engage with services or who may find it hard to access clinic-based services.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. While this is not an identified position, we actively welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples asa significant proportionof our clients identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.

About you

You will be someone with excellent communication,interpersonaland collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work.You'llhave strongorganisationaland time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.

To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:

• A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology), with current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, as well as registration with AHPRA (where necessary).
• Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual,outreachand carer-focused clinical services.
• Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective.
• Experience in developingindividualisedservice plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems.

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach, at [e-mail]

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Applications close Monday 30 November 2026 at 11.59pm