Mental Health Clinician

About the role
Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service - Infant and child team provides timely access to secondary consultation, comprehensive mental health assessment, early intervention and evidence-based treatment for children and young people aged 0 to 15 years, their families and other services within the community. As a clinician you will have professional experience and postgraduate qualification in your discipline. You will provide high quality, and recovery focussed psychosocial treatment, and care, to children, young people and their families that are evidence-based and best practice to enhance the child’s recovery from mental health and wellbeing challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• To undertake comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments of people to identify the child or young person’s and family needs, and/or referral options.
• Routinely provide best practice assessment and recovery-oriented psychosocial treatment provision and care; the level of expertise commensurate with the role and years of experience.
• Provision of risk assessment and management of people, inclusive of their families where appropriate and wider system consistent with GMHWS policies and procedures occupying positions at this classification level.
• Proactive engagement in the pursuit of clinical supervision, both discipline specific and generic.
• To actively and effectively work within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the generic and discipline specific clinical expertise of that multidisciplinary team.

Skills and experience

• You must be able to meet relevant EBA requirements for a mental health clinician in your discipline (Psychologist, OT, Social Worker, RPN).
• Registration with AHPRA or AASW (for social workers- desirable).
• Ability to engage in public speaking, presenting, and ability to use related IT for presenting. 
• Demonstrates effective communication and interpersonal skills; the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with children, families, significant others, colleagues and other service providers such as health, education, welfare and child services, maternal child health services and private providers.
• Work from a recovery and strengths-based framework.
• Previous experience working directly with vulnerable children and families is desirable.

Grampians Health Culture & Benefits

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset.  We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Access to Fitness Passport membership
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

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Interested?

Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Beth Fernandes, Team Leader- Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Services on 5320 3030 for a confidential discussion. 

Job applications close: 25 March 2026

Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.