Ahp2 Mental Health Clinician

**Job no**: 911256
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - GP Plus Marion - Mental Health Services
- Salary $88,255.00 - $102,240.00p.a. (Pro Rata) AHP2 | 0.8 FTE - 12 month contract available.

**Clinical Excellence - Mental Health Clinician Role Available Now**

Join our Southern Community Mental Health Service as a Mental Health Clinician, where you'll provide specialist assessment, treatment, and crisis intervention for clients experiencing acute mental health episodes across Adelaide's southern metropolitan region. This 0.8 FTE contract position at the Specialist Community Mental Health Service offers the opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team, delivering evidence-based care whilst developing your clinical expertise in one of Australia's leading health networks. This position works across a 7 day roster. With competitive remuneration, comprehensive professional development, and the chance to make a meaningful difference in your community's mental health journey, this role represents an exceptional opportunity for career growth until August 2026.

**About the role**:
Some of your duties as the Mental Health Clinician involve:

- Undertaking clinical assessments in the community setting for consumers experiencing a mental health related crisis.
- Engaging in a range of therapeutic interventions, for example Safety Planning, Gold Card Clinics and participating in the development and implementation of Towards Zero Suicide pathways.
- Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration and escalating appropriately.
- Working collegially within the multi-disciplinary team, maintaining a consumer focus and implementing best practice initiatives.

**About you**:

- The successful incumbent will hold one of the following:

- **Social Worker** - Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
- **Clinical Psychologist**:

- Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification recognised by the Psychology Board of Australia(PsyBA), hold general registration with PsyBA and endorsement as a clinical psychologist/eligibility to participate in the registrar program.
- **Occupational Therapist** -Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
- Experience working with people who have mental illness, their families and/or carers.
- Experience in the delivery of care coordination to mental health consumers.
- Ability to work collaboratively with all key stake holder to design individual service plans and coordinate comprehensive service provision including rehabilitation programs from a psychosocial perspective, for consumers who have complex needs

Please see the attached Role Descriptions for additional information.

**Application Closing Date**:**11.55 pm Sunday 10th August 2025

**Attachments**:

- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

**Applicant Information**:

- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref**:911256**

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**Advertised**: 25 Jul 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 10 Aug 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time