Mental Health Clinician ICYMHS
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- Fantastic Opportunity to join our dynamic, playful, and committed Inner North Child Community Team at ICYMHS - Austin Health
- Full-time (38 hours) parental leave position available up to 29/5/2026
- Grade 2 role working with infants, children and their families
- Strong multidisciplinary team approach to care
- Heidelberg location and off site
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 Mental Health Division and Child Team
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 located across Austin Health campuses and in the community.
The Child Team provides early intervention and developmentally appropriate high-quality mental health treatment to infants and infants and children aged up to 12 years and their families referred with mental health concerns to the service. In working to improve clinical outcomes for those experiencing a range of difficulties the team adopts a flexible and proactive model which includes an outreach service to those families who may find it hard to access clinic-based services. The service model is informed by strong neurodevelopmental, developmental, and relational perspectives, trauma informed care, family inclusive and strength-based practice, safety and risk management approaches and will include peer support for families. The family is central in decision making of treatment. The team work collaboratively in practice and draw on a strong understanding of systemic approaches and frameworks to clinical care and case management.
About the role
The Mental Health Clinician is an experienced mental health clinician who provides a high-quality clinical case management service that is informed by developmental, systemic and collaborative strength-based frameworks and expert clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment interventions to infants, children and their families.
This is a great time to join the Infant and Child Team as the program develops its services to the community and refines its scope of practice to this vulnerable age group.
About you
To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:
- Current Clinical Psychology, Occupational Therapy or Registered Psychiatric Nurse registration with AHPRA; for Social Work, eligibility for membership of AASW
- Clinical experience working with children and their family.
- A strong commitment to high quality care
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
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: Sandy Robertson, Program Manager Central, Sandy.Robertson@austin.org.au
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Thursday 5 June 2025
