Mental Health Clinician

**About us**:
We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

Stride is a name that expresses our ambition - it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

As we embark on the next stage of our journey, join us to make a difference. We're here to Stride.

**About the service**:
The Wollongong Mental Health Hub is a brand-new community mental health and wellbeing service, providing community outreach and in HUB supports. We are open to everyone in the community for mental health support. Participants can access a range of community mental health support services; clinical mental health services; care coordination and Peer supports.

**On Offer**:

- Based in Wollongong NSW
- Permanent, part-time (0.6 FTE) opportunity available
- Paying on HPSS level 3 plus Super
- Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free)
- Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
- Leave loading at 17.5%
- Stride Rewards - access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
- One paid wellbeing leave day per year
- Purchase up to 5 additional leave days in a 12-month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time)
- Paid parental leave support
- Supportive team environment
- Excellent training and career development

**Role overview**:

- Deliver focused therapeutic supports tailored to meet the needs of individuals accessing services within a community-based mental health care setting.
- Provision and documentation of mental health assessments, including completion of mental state examination, case formulations, treatment planning and mandatory reporting as required.
- Consultation, liaison and linkage with internal and external service systems to provide a full range of tailored interventions.
- Active participation within the multi-disciplinary team, the profession specific network and with consumers, families and extended agencies.
- Participation in regular clinical and operational supervision, professional development and commitment to the continued development of clinical skills and evidence based best practice.

**Requirements**:

- Must have one of the following: Full AHPRA registration as a General or Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Occupational Therapist OR AASW registration as a Social Worker OR full ACA membership as a degree qualified Counsellor OR full ANZACATA membership as an Art Therapist
- Demonstrated ability to collaboratively plan and coordinate individualised interventions to meet the needs of people with a mental health condition based on a case formulation approach
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills in relation to clients, clinical and non-clinical staff and stakeholders
- Ability to cope with organisational change
- Awareness of relevant legislation/policies and issues informing health and other services for people experiencing mental illness
- Demonstrated capacity to be innovative in clinical approaches
- Experience in providing DBT informed interventions and trauma informed interventions would be well regarded
- Technology literate - ability to use Microsoft Office Suite, Mastercare, other Client Management Systems (CMS) and related technology systems
- Ability to maintain and develop the culture, philosophy, standards, guidelines and policies of Stride and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
- Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a WWCC

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

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