Youth Mental Health Clinician

Job Requisition ID: 5039
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Dandenong, VIC, AU, 3175
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Posting Date: 21 Aug 2025

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**We are seeking a Youth Mental Health Clinician (OT, SW Speech Path, RPN), on a Full-Time 1.0 permanent basis.**

**This position is predominantly based in Dandenong.**

**About You**

Seeking to grow our dedicated and knowledgeable team, we are looking for you to bring your demonstrated skills and experience in case management and assessment, working with youth and families within a multidisciplinary team. You are adaptable to a changing environment as we work together to deliver first class service. Alongside your caring and engaging manner, you have a positive work attitude, strong communication skills and a strong people-person focus allowing you to engage with our clients (patients) and their families. On a personal level, you are:

- Dedicated to safe best practice and quality care
- Committed to delivering quality care, service and advocacy
- Enthusiastic, compassionate and able to work collaboratively
- Excited to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence
- An advocate of Monash Health’s Strategic Guiding Principles

**About the Young Persons Mental Health Service**

Young Persons Mental Health Services (YPMHS) provides mental health assessment and treatment for young people (aged 18-25 years) and their families. We work with the 18-25 age group in the Southern Region, providing a comprehensive assessment service and a range of treatment options including inpatient treatment in times of crisis, community (outpatient) treatment, group programs, family therapy, and specialist services. We work with families to address a number of complex issues they may be experiencing, including parent/child relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, trauma related issues, self-harm, suicidal thinking, eating disorders, neuro developmental presentations and psychosis. We also work collaboratively with families, educational settings and other agencies to create identified areas for change and work strongly from a relational and systemic framework. We now have ongoing (permanent), full-time opportunity available to work as a youth mental health clinician in our thriving, engaged Youth Community Mental Health Team, providing mental health assessment, formulation and treatment to complex and acute young people in the South East. With exposure to a multidisciplinary team led by consultant psychiatrists, we provide assessment and treatment for youth and their families in the City of Casey, City of Greater Dandenong, and the Shire of Cardinia.

**In Return**

Ours is a connected team with strong shared values and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Ours is also a highly skilled, collaborative and welcoming multidisciplinary team where the only limit in your career is you. As a valuable member of a wider team, we are committed to working with you to become your professional best. There is access to resources to support you in this position, we offer clinical education sessions, on the job training and career progression to enable you to further develop your Clinical and Leadership skills whilst role modelling excellence and delivering a high standard of client(patient) centred care. There is no better time to join us and here’s just a few reasons why:

- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills and knowledge base
- Avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
- Mentorship and career guidance
- Support to attend relevant forums and conferences
- A supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further**, please call Elle on 0408 640 132**

**Position Description can be**found here**

**Nursing Attachment can be**found here**

**Social Worker Attachment can be**found here**

**Speech Pathologist Attachment can be**found here**

**Occupational Therapist attachment can be**found here**

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

**How to Apply**

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

**Applications close: 12 September 2025