Mental Health
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At Austin Health, we are committed to delivering compassionate, recovery orientated mental health care that places consumers, carers, and lived experience at the centre of everything we do.
Working with us means joining a value driven, multidisciplinary workforce that is passionate about making a meaningful difference for our consumers and their support persons. We offer a dynamic and supportive environment across inpatient, community, specialist and statewide services, where innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement are embedded in practice.
Our mental health teams are supported by a strong clinical leadership, a culture of psychological safety, and a shared commitment to evidenced base care. Whether you are an early in your career or an experienced clinician, Austin Health provides the opportunity to grow, lead, and shape the future of mental health care.
Mental health specialties
Our services span the full spectrum of mental health care, providing opportunities to work across, infant, child and youth mental health, adult and older adult services, as well as a range of statewide and specialist programs.
We have roles at point of care, as well as specialised leadership roles, to suit your career stage and experience. This diversity offers unique opportunities to grow your expertise, explore different clinical and leadership areas, and shape a career that evolves with you.
Career opportunities spread across multiple disciplines including:
- Occupational therapists
- Social workers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Neuropsychologists
- Lived and living experience peer workforce for consumers and carers
- As well as other specialty and clinical roles
Where your mental health career with Austin Health can take yo
A career with Ausin Health is more than just job, it's a pathway to diverse, meaningful and evolving opportunities across the mental health system.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Work across a broad range of services, including inpatient, community, crisis, specialist programs and emerging models of care.
- Step into a unique and emerging roles, including specialist clinician positions, lived experience partnerships, project and implementation roles, and service development initiatives.
- Progress into advanced clinical, education, leadership, or research opportunities.
- Be actively involved in service design, implementation and reform, contributing to new models o care and system wide improvements.
- Contribute to service improvement, quality initiatives, and evidenced informed practices that directly enhances consumer outcomes.
We recognise that no two careers look the same, whether you are passionate about clinical excellence, leadership, education, or innovation, we provide the flexibility and support to help you shape a career that reflects you interests and strengths.
You will be supported through access to ongoing education and professional development, including multidisciplinary learning, clinical supervision, and opportunities to further your skills, knowledge and career progression.
We actively support career progression and internal mobility, enabling you to explore different pathways while remaining within a connected, collaborative and supportive service.
Meet the team
"Every day is different. Every day is exciting."
Maddy
Occupational Therapist, Child and Youth Mental Health Services
“Austin is unique in that we have such a multitude of services, including specialist services.”
Nicole
Clinical Nurse Consultant
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Diversity and inclusion
We want our staff to thrive, be their best selves, and feel engaged, safe and empowered.
Employee benefits
We offer a range of benefits, including salary packaging, wellbeing programs and staff discounts.
International recruitment
We welcome applications from overseas health professionals who are looking to move to Australia.
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Austin Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands we live and work on, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders and the ongoing connections of the oldest living culture in the world. We support the important role First Nations Peoples continuously hold in our society and are committed to providing culturally safe services that will assist us in achieving our vision for reconciliation.
