Mental Health Clinician- AIM
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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 Department
The Mental Health Division provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers throughout Victoria. Services are across Adult and Child and Adolescent and can be bed based or located in the community.
All mental health services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery-oriented practice and supported decision making. This approach to consumer wellbeing builds on the strengths of the individual working in partnership with their treating team. It encompasses the principles of self-determination and individualised treatment and care.
About ICYMHS
ICYMHS provides tertiary mental health services to the north-eastern catchment of Melbourne. Young people eligible for the service are predominantly aged 0-18 years with only several teams currently available for those aged up to 25 years. ICYMHS currently have two inpatient units, outpatient community teams and several specialist youth outreach teams.
About AIM:
The AIM Team is part of Austin Health’s Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). It services young people from 6 local government areas of metropolitan Melbourne. It is one of several outpatient/outreach teams within the service. It provides intensive, outreach, mental health services including screening/assessment, treatment and consultation concerning adolescents experiencing complex social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties and mental health problems. Most of the caseload consists of young people aged 12-18 years, their families, and systems of care. These are typically young people who are vulnerable, at high risk, and find it difficult to engage in office-based services.
About the role
As a mental health clinician, you will primarily provide an intensive outreach mental health service to high-risk young people, as well as their families and wider service systems within the Austin ICYMHS catchment. You'll work collaboratively with AIM clinicians and broader ICYMHS staff and teams, to support young people who find it difficult to engage in office-based services and are at risk of harm.
About you
You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work. You'll have strong organisational and 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, psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology), with current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, as well as registration with APHRA (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, outreach and 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 developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems
Our benefits
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.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working with Children Check. 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 Rowan.CHIPCHASE@austin.org.au
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Sunday 12 October 2025
