Mental Health Clinician

Ballarat Central, VIC, AU, 3350

**$43.67 to $56.72 depending on your discipline and level of experience**

**Up to $15,000 incentive payments may be available to support relocation**

**Why Grampians Health in Ararat?**
- **Accelerate your career progression**with our supportive rural team, offering diverse experiences and opportunities to grow
- Enjoy **structured supervision and mentorship** to support your professional development and success.
- Ideal for **early-career clinicians**, you'll gain exposure to a wide-ranging caseload while building valuable skills.
- Join a team where your work is **challenging, rewarding,**and makes a meaningful impact on mental heath outcomes in rural and regional Victoria.

Join our dedicated team as a Mental Health Clinician, providing holistic, evidence-based care to support recovery for individuals experiencing mental health challenges. Working collaboratively with Senior Clinicians and Team Leaders, you'll deliver comprehensive bio-psycho-social clinical assessments, treatment, and care plans that prioritise consumer centered and family inclusive practice.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments, identifying and prioritising needs for consumers and families.
- Serve as the primary treating clinician within a multidisciplinary team focused on continuous improvement, community-based, evidence-based best practices
- Develop, implement, and review individualised treatment plans addressing biological, psychological, and social needs.
- Evaluate treatments outcomes, ensuring optimal recovery for consumers and families.
- Actively involve families in care delivery, promoting recovery-oriented practices in everyday clinical work.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in daily clinical practice with respect to the routine, active involvement of families in the delivery of clinical treatments.
- Rural teams are required to work weekends as rostered, as well as on-call rosters on weekends and afterhours.

**Skills and experience**
- Ideally you will have experience working in a Community Mental Health team
- Strong clinical assessment skills
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to work both independently and within a team structure
- Relevant professional qualification one of the below health-related disciplines, and current registration where applicable;
- Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3
- Psychologist Grade 2
- Social Worker Grade 2
- Occupational Therapist Grade 2

**Culture & Benefits**
- Flexible work arrangements and ability to purchase additional leave
- Monthly ADO for full time employees, and 5 weeks annual leave
- Increase your take home pay Salary package up to $9,010 in living-expense and $2,650 on meals, entertainment, venue hire or holidays
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**Relocation Support**

The Victorian Government has allocated funds to support rural and regional Area Mental Health Services (AMHS) to provide incentives to attract workers to roles that are difficult to fill.

The new workforce relocation and incentive grants program is being administered by Rural Agency Workforce Victoria (RWAV).

More information for eligibility requirement click here Area Mental Health Services - RWAV

**Interested?**

if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Allister Williamson, Team Leader Ararat, on 0400 755 366 for a confidential discussion.

**About Grampians Health**
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

**Ararat Region**
Ararat has a population of over 11,000 and is situated 198km west of Melbourne on the Western Highway which connects the region to Adelaide. Ararat is the gateway to the Grampians Region and is characterised by stunning horizons, mountain scapes and a strong sense of community.

Advanced manufacturing, agriculture, food and wine production, construction, healthcare and tourism experiences underpin the economy. To learn more about Ararat please click - Visit Ararat

**Diversity and Inclusion**

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.