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Join us as a Senior Mental Health Clinician in the Central Youth Community Team (Austin Health ICYMHS)
Open to: Grade 3 Occupational Therapist, Psychologist, Social Worker, Speech Pathologist, or Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses
Fixed term part time (30.4 hours per week) parental leave cover from June 2025 to June 2026

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 Youth Community Team

The Central Youth Community Team (CYCT) 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.

CYCT primarily provides services to young people aged 12-25 in the ICYMHS catchment areas of 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 Senior Mental Health Clinician position is primarily a community case manager role, providing high quality, expert clinical care and case management to children, young people and their families referred to CYCT, as allocated by the Team Manager.

As a senior member of the team and ICYMHS, you will assist and support the Team Leader/Consultants in their leadership responsibilities. You will actively model positive behaviours in line with organisational values to support a healthy, productive and innovative team/ICYMHS culture that are concerned with health, wellbeing and safety for consumers, carers, communities and staff.

It is expected that you will work closely with the CYCT multidisciplinary team, under the direction of the Program Manager, Team Leader, and the Consultant Psychiatrist, to provide holistic and recovery-orientated case management to young people, their families or other supports, who are accessing the service. The team works collaboratively in practice and draws on a strong understanding of systems approaches and frameworks to complex care and case management.

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/have:

A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology) and current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, with minimum years of clinical experience for a senior role according to the Enterprise Agreement, specific to experience with children and young people within a tertiary mental health setting.
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 benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
A commitment to assist with career development opportunities
Ongoing clinical support with individualised professional development plans
Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options

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. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the 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.