Senior Mental Health Clinician - Youth

$50.40 to $61.47 per hour + salary packaging | Senior Mental Health Clinician - Youth 

Permanent Full Time | 40 hours per week including a monthly ADO

About the Role

This Senior Mental Health Clinician role offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership within a dynamic Youth Mental Health team. Working closely with the Team Leader, you will shape clinical practice, support complex presentations, and contribute to day-to-day team coordination. The role balances hands-on clinical work with mentoring, consultation and service development, supporting high-quality, youth-focused mental health care.

• Provide clinical leadership within the Youth Mental Health team
• Support complex presentations and tailored care planning
• Mentor and support clinicians to build capability
• Coordinate daily clinical operations and case discussions
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary clinical practice and case reviews
• Deliver specialist mental health assessment and intervention
• Coordinate clinical workload and support team operations
• Provide consultation across primary to tertiary services
• Build effective partnerships with external agencies
• Participate in supervision, training and quality initiatives

Skills & Experience

• Registration in Nursing, OT, Social Work or Psychology
• Expertise in youth mental health and complex presentations
• Strong clinical leadership and mentoring capability
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Confidence using electronic clinical systems

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Interested?
Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Damien Taylor on (03) 5320 4565 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.

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.

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

Ballarat Region

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city.  Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping.  Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with 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+.