Clinician - Connect Centre - Hybrid

**Work options**: Hybrid
- Work for a not for profit organisation that celebrates all cultures, diversity and inclusion
- A culture that values and supports professional development
- Additional salary packaging for meals & accommodation

**About Connect Centre**

In partnership with Better Health Network and VACCA, Berry Street Take Two is the lead therapeutic team within the Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Centre South East Metro. Currently, there are more than 60,000 Victorians providing mental health care support to loved ones, often going unpaid and without professional support.
- ** Dandenong location, Boonwurrung country**:

- **Part time (0.6FTE), Fixed term (until 30/08/2026)**:

- ** $103K p/a (pro rata) plus superannuation and salary packaging**

**Your Opportunity**

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Centre South East Metro provides support to families, carers, kin and supporters of those experiencing mental ill health and/or substance abuse challenges.

The Connect Centre offers family members, kin, carers and supporters free services with access to their own support, with no referrals required.

As a Clinician you will have an understanding and appreciation for those supporting someone with mental ill health and/or substance abuse challenges. The role will provide supportive therapeutic interventions and work in collaboration with the Lived and Living Experience Team and VACCA Cultural Team to provide wholistic support and service delivery.

These roles will require evening and Saturday work on a rotating roster across the team in the near future.

**Your skills and experience**

If you have demonstrated abilities in clinical assessment and intervention and a work ethic that aligns to Berry Street's core values; **Courage, Integrity, Respect**, **Accountability**and **Working Together,** the Clinician position offers an exciting opportunity to work in a new and unique program.

You will have a solution focused approach and a desire to champion the voice of carers, family members supporters and kin of those with mental ill health and/or substance use challenges and colleagues with Lived and Lived Experience within the Program.

Drawing on your own knowledge and understanding of Carer's experiences providing carer support for people with mental illness and/or substance misuse, you will support carers through ongoing challenges and commonalities they face and help guide them on how to support their community effectively.

**Extra benefits**
- Regular reflective supervision
- $15,900.00 pa (pro rata) Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
- Flexible work arrangements
- 10 weeks paid parental leave + other generous leave conditions
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program, with access for staff's immediate family

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by **midnight** on **Wednesday 24 September 2025.**

Queries to Remi Yusuf - Clinical Team Leader, Connect Centre (Take Two)**on **0408 449 730**
- Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTQIA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion._
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply._