Community Engagement and Partnerships Clinician

Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: 6067

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• Part time – 15.2 hours per week
• Permanent, ongoing position
• Opportunity to join the Community Partnerships Engagement team at Austin Health

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 Child and Youth Mental Health Service department

Thechild and youthcommunityteamsworkalongsidespecialist outreach teams,anUnder25 Crisis Assessment & Treatment Service (CATS)and a triage team. The work is supported byspecialistroles: -Infant and Child Specialists, Carerand ConsumerConsultants,Alcohol & Other Drug Specialists,Aboriginal Mental Health Liaison Officers,a group programcoordinatorandan Autism Spectrum Disorder AssessmentProgram

About the role

Community Engagement & Partnerships Senior Clinicians are part of a small group of Senior Clinicians who will support ICYMHS in the development and maintenance of robust community engagement and partnership activities and linkages.

This includes mental health promotion activities, including leading the development of local collaborative information exchanges and advising networks of professionals within north-eastern metropolitan Melbourne for infant child, youth, family services within north-eastern metropolitan Melbourne as well as primary health networks and education/vocation services.

This senior role will provide specialist child, adolescent and youth mental health consultation, education, and training about mental health issues for young people and families/carers. It will also facilitate the sharing of information between services to improve mental health outcomes for infant, children, young people and their families/carers. It has a strong external stakeholder, and partnerships focus as well as an important internal ICYMHS collaboration.

It's an exciting time to join us a Austin ICYMHS as we navigate partnership work with the community to better support young people needing to access mental health supports.

About you

To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:

• Relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline and registered with relevant governing body.
• Understanding of a supporting and establishing strong links with Wellbeing networks that are being established across the state in response to increased levels of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and young people
• Collaborative approach between Child and Youth Mental Health Services the Department of Education and Training (DET), headspace, the Department of Health (DH), the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) and a range of intersectoral partners.
• Scoping and establishment of networks and partnerships beneficial to the ICYMHS expansions to include work with 18–25-year-olds.

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, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.

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.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working with Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards.If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager:Nathan Hall, Program Manager - Community Teams ICYMHS at Nathan.HALL@austin.org.au

Applications close Wednesday 23 September 2026 at 11.59pm

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