Senior Mental Health Clinician - Child
Ballarat Central, VIC, AU, 3350
$47.03 - $62.70 per hour + salary packaging & super | Senior Mental Health Clinician - Psychologist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist & Registered Psychiatric Nurse
Permanent Full Time | 80 hours a fortnight including a monthly ADO | All disciplines
About the Role
Join the Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service supporting young people aged 0–25 and their families through timely assessment, early intervention and evidence-based care. As a Senior Clinician, you will deliver trauma-informed and recovery-focused mental health support while contributing to clinical leadership, service innovation and multidisciplinary collaboration.
You will provide high-quality assessments, formulations and referral recommendations for young people aged 0–15 within a family-inclusive model of care, with opportunities to lead practice development and support service improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Routinely provide best practice comprehensive assessments 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.
- To clinically manage a caseload of clients within a multidisciplinary team that emphasises, practices and continually seeks to improve client-centred, trauma informed, family-inclusive, community based, evidence-based and best practices.
- 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 senior mental health clinician in your discipline (Psychologist, Social Work, OT or RPN). Including registration with AHPRA where required.
- Demonstrate expert knowledge of child development including health, wellbeing, and emotional and psychological disturbance. Demonstrated ability to clinically formulate a presentation and work with a recovery-based framework to create and deliver appropriate and evidence -based treatment plans.
- Relevant experience in and an ongoing commitment to the deliver of evidence-based, family inclusive interventions for infants and children in high-risk categories who experience significant mental health concerns. Demonstrated proficiency in the application of knowledge in current evidence-based treatment practices and approaches.
- Demonstrates an ability to provide leadership, including developing clinical expertise within the team through mentoring, training, teaching and supervision. Operates with a high level of individual integrity, responsibility and professionalism. Has the capacity to be a consistent and reliable role model within the team
- Desirable: having completed the developmental psychiatry course through Mindful.
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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
Interested?
Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Sarah Shaw, Acting Team Leader - Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Services on 03 5320 3030 for a confidential discussion.
We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.
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About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.
Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.
Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Ballarat has some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat
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+.
This position is paid in accordance with the Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement. The classification is Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 4 (NP75 – NP77) which ranges from $56.07 - $60.38 per hour. (For RPNs)
