Senior Mental Health Clinician

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• Fantastic Opportunity to Join the Central Infant and Child Community Team at Austin Health 

• Full time (40 hours per week with ADO every 4 weeks) or Part time (minimum of 0.8EFT/ 30.4hrs/week) 

• Open to: Grade 3 Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Clinical Psychologists, Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses 

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

The Central Infant and Child Community Team (CCCT) is one of several community outpatient teams within the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). It is a multi-disciplinary team that offers individual and group assessment, treatment, consultations, and a clinical case management service to young people with a variety of complex and severe mental illnesses and/or disorders.  

CCCT primarily provides services to young people aged 0-11 in the ICYMHS catchment areas of Boroondara, Banyule and Nillumbik. The service currently operates within business hours, with a view to expand operating hours in the future to improve accessibility in line with Royal Commission recommendations. 

About the role 

The successful applicant 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 the senior clinician 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. 

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 will 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 

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, as a significant proportion of our clients identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We are committed to fostering a culturally safe and inclusive workplace and delivering culturally safe services to the community. 

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. 

• Mentoring and career development opportunities. 
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options. 

• We foster a culture that celebrates and respects each and every person 

• Attractive rates matched to your experience and Accrued Day Off every month for full time staff 

• $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation 

• Conveniently located in the suburbs near public transport 

• A commitment to assist with career development opportunities 

• Ongoing clinical support with individualised professional development plans 

• Employees and their direct family members can receive free professional, confidential counselling through the Austin Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Mindfulness meditation classes are available for employees at all three main hospital sites. 

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: 28 December 2025