Senior Mental Health Clinician

Drive Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Youth Mental Health

Metro South Health is seeking an experienced Senior Mental Health Clinician to join the Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) at Browns Plains Community Health Centre. This temporary part-time HP4 role (45.6 hrs per fortnight, until June 2026) provides advanced clinical services, case management, and leadership in child and youth mental health care.

Your New Role

As a Senior Mental Health Clinician, you will provide advanced discipline-specific and multidisciplinary services for children, young people (up to 18 years), and their families experiencing complex mental health concerns. You will contribute to intake, case management, therapeutic interventions, community liaison, and service development.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Delivering high-level assessment, therapeutic interventions, and case management
• Providing clinical leadership, advice, and supervision to HP3 clinicians, students, and AHAs
• Undertaking risk assessments and supporting recovery-oriented care planning
• Developing partnerships with schools, community organisations, and external agencies
• Contributing to service development, policy, and evidence-based clinical practice improvements
• Supporting research, evaluation, and quality improvement initiatives within CYMHS

About you:

We are seeking a motivated and resilient clinician with advanced skills in child and youth mental health. You will bring expertise in delivering therapeutic interventions, leadership in multidisciplinary environments, and a strong commitment to recovery-oriented care.

To Succeed In This Role, You Will Demonstrate

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and registration (Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, or Speech Pathology)
• Eligibility/commitment to attain Authorised Mental Health Practitioner status
• High-level knowledge of child and youth mental health assessment, intervention, and case management
• Experience supervising and mentoring less experienced clinicians and students
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Commitment to person-centred, culturally safe, and trauma-informed care

What We Can Offer You

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

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