Senior Mental Health Clinician Social Worker Specialist Eating Disorders

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• Fixed term, 12 months
• Part time – 22.8 hours (0.6FTE) per week
• Chance to work across clinic and outreach settings 
• Located at Heidelberg, may be required to work across other sites

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. 

The Child and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) sits within the Mental Health Division and provides tertiary mental health services to the north-eastern catchment of Melbourne (currently the local government areas of Banyule, Boroondara, Darebin, Nillumbik, Whittlesea, and Yarra). Young people eligible for the service are predominantly aged 0-18 years with several teams currently working with those aged up to 25 years.

The position sits within the (ICYMHS) directorate and is located within the Specialist Eating Disorder Service (SEDS). SEDS provides expert clinical assessment, formulations and treatment recommendations to children and young people with eating disorders (aged 0- 25 years) and their families who are referred to
Austin Health’s ICYMHS.

About the role

The Specialist Eating Disorder Team plays a crucial role in providing timely and effective assessment, treatment, and support to young people who experience eating disorders together with supporting their carers/ families. You will be an integral and a highly valued member of the multidisciplinary team, offering discipline specific knowledge and skills to young consumers, carers and parents and to the case managers sitting in the community teams in the service.

A regular day will see you:  

• Work collaboratively with your colleagues in the SEDS team and the case managers in the community teams to ensure that eating disorder care is prompt, person-centred, holistic, and responsive to the unique needs of young consumers and their families
• Support, capacity build, provide leadership and direction at times co working complex young people and families with the Community Team clinicians
• Engage young people and their families in clinical and in home / outreach settings – the latter regarding mostly meal support.

About you 

 To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

• Social Work qualification and eligibility for registration with the AASW.
• At least 7 years’ experience working as a Social Worker.
• Experience in family therapy.
• A strong understanding of the Victorian public mental health system. 
• Experience in eating disorders and relevant training in eating evidence-based treatment.
• A deep understanding of recovery-focused care and an ability to work from a strengths-based approach. 
• A commitment to ensuring safe, best-practice care that puts consumers at the heart of the decision-making process. 

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 at Sandy.Robertson@austin.org.au

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

Application closing date:  Monday 14 July 2025