Intellectual Disability Mental Health Clinician

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Location**: Mental Health Centre Penrith
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ589991
**Application Close**: 24/07/2025

**Position Classification and Remuneration: Dependent on qualification**
Social Worker or Occupational Therapist Level 3: $112,396.00 - $116,038.00 per annum
Senior Psychologist: $119,206.00 - $129,171.00 per annum
Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2: $113,243.15 - $116,963.48 per annum
- With _**_CORE_**_ Values of _**_C_**_ollaboration, _**_O_**_penness, _**_R_**_espect_ and _**_E_**_mpowerment,_
- working with us will ensure your professional life is _provided_ every opportunity to succeed_
- and develop in your chosen career role._

**About Us**
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

NBMLHD Community Mental Health offers a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centres. Our multidisciplinary health professionals and case managers take a collaborative approach to mental health care by linking with their patients to work together and consult within an environment appropriate to the person's needs.

Step into a transformative role where clinical expertise meets meaningful impact. This position is dedicated to improving mental health outcomes for individuals with co-occurring intellectual disability and mental health (IDMH) conditions across the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD). Through specialist support for consumers and their families or carers, and collaborative consultation with NSW Health professionals, NDIS providers, and community-managed organisations, you'll help ensure timely transitions from hospital to quality community-based care.

Beyond direct clinical work, this role champions education and capacity building, raising the visibility of IDMH consumers by enhancing the knowledge and skills of mental health staff throughout NBMLHD. You’ll be a vital force in shaping inclusive care and strengthening support systems that foster long-term wellbeing.

**Benefits**available to**eligible**NBMLHD** employees**
- Accrued Day Off (ADO)
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here **Child Safe Standards**.


**What you will bring to the role**
- Recognised tertiary qualifications as below (or other qualifications deemed equivalent/appropriate by the employer) a) Occupational Therapist: Degree & full registration with AHPRA b) Social Worker: holds as a minimum a bachelor’s degree in social work which provides eligibility for membership with AASW C) Nursing: Relevant post-rego quals & at least 3 yrs experience working in Mental Health or the Disability area related to their specified post-graduate qual & full registration with AHPRA d) Senior Psychologist: An employee with a 4yr degree in psychology, being a 3rd yr degree with a 4th yr Honors in psych and who is registered as a psychologist with AHPRA. Employees appointed at the snr psych level shall satisfy the criteria for the psych classification & have completed a min of 1yr at the 9th yr of service & thereafter point on the salary scale for psych
- Substantial full time post graduate clinical experience, including experience working with consumers living with mental health and intellectual disability with a high level of knowledge, clinical expertise and advanced clinical reasoning
- Demonstrated experience and skills in a range of specialised assessments and interventions suitable for consumers with a mental health problem and a disability, including but not limited to intellectual disability
- Demonstrated experience providing consultation and sharing clinical expertise with teams in a way that builds the capacity of other professionals to enhance their service delivery, including the ability to translate knowledge to both clinical and non-clinical audiences
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across inpatient and community settings, with advanced communication and interpersonal skills, to foster cooperative partnerships to support inclusive health care delivery for people with intellectual disabilities
- Demonstrated organisational skills and ability to work autonomously within a broad scope and manage a demanding workload with competing priorities with minimum direct clinical supervision
- Demonstrated ability to work within a recovery orientated framework, including collaborating with