Mental Health Clinician

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Location**: Katoomba Community Health Centre
**Hours Per Week**: 24
**Requisition ID**: REQ593198
**Application Close**:17/08/2025

**Position Classification & Remuneration: Dependent on qualifications**
Social Worker, Counsellor or Occupational Therapist Level 1/2: $37.03 - $52.83 per hour
Registered Nurse: $36.38 - $51.08 per hour
Psychologist: $39.01 - $57.10 per hour
- 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.

Join a team where compassion meets innovation and every day makes a difference. We’re seeking a dedicated mental health professional to deliver transformative clinical services that empower individuals living with mental illness or disorder. This role is shaped by a collaborative, recovery-focused model that values inclusion, self-advocacy, and family engagement—while embracing evidence-based practices to foster independence and lasting wellbeing.

**Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees**
- 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**:

- Tertiary qualifications, professional registration/membership as follow, plus significant clinical experience in mental health: a.) Nursing b.) Occupational Therapy c.) Social Worker d.) Psychologist
- Demonstrated skills in mental health and discipline specific assessments and interventions and experience working with people with severe and persistent mental illness.
- Experience working in a Community Mental Health Treatment Team and/or knowledge of the principles that guide service delivery within this model of practice.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate meaningfully with consumers and carers with a commitment and understanding of recovery principles in mental health service provision.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of NSW Mental Health Act, 2007.
- Demonstrated excellent communication skills including verbal, written, and good interpersonal skills.
- Computer competence and literacy.
- Current driver's licence and willingness to use for work purposes

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

**Need more information?**
1) Click here for the Position Description