Mental Health Clinician

One Temporary Full Time for mental health clinician position available to cover a secondment at the youth response team until 31st October 2025.

**Employment Type**: Temporary Full Time until 31 October 2025 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
**Position Classification**: Dependent on qualification
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ573978

**Salary per week**:
Clinical Nurse Specialist (Grade 2): $2,170.30 - $2,241.60
Clinical Psychologist: $2,093.71 - $2,551.93
Allied Health Professional (Level 3): $2,154.06 - $2,223.86

**Who we are**: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
- NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination, and racism._

**Where you'll be working**
Across NSLHD district including Macquarie Hospital, Brookvale CHC and Mona vale Hospital

**What you'll be doing**

Provide after-hours rapid crisis response to young people (12-17years) in suicidal distress within the community, aiming to create a safe space in their home environment and facilitate contact with local services who can provide further and ongoing support. This includes rostered work within the established Safe Havens at Macquarie Hospital and Brookvale Community Health Centre and at the Youth Response Team in North Ryde and Mona Vale.
Clinicians will provide recovery-oriented and trauma-informed clinical care for young people who are in suicidal crisis. Support may include crisis response, psychosocial support, safety planning, recovery/wellness planning, advocacy, and collaborative identification of community supports, risk assessment, care planning, referral to appropriate care settings, liaison with signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding under the NSW Mental Health Act (2007).

Clinicians will deliver support that aligns with the principles of step up/step down care. This includes making referrals to a range of community-based services for ongoing support if required (step down), or escalating concerns over consumer wellbeing to other acute or emergency services (step up).

The clinicians will work in collaboration with the Towards Zero Suicide working group for the ongoing co-design, phased development and evaluation of the model of care and support best clinical practice.
Clinicians will be working autonomously with mínimal clinical direct supervision. They will be utilising extensive specialist knowledge on clinical care of a suicidal person with a focus on young people 12-17years old, for providing independent judgement, solving problems and managing complex cases.

**_ People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply._**
- Recognised qualifications in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology or Occupational Therapy and registration with AHPRA or eligibility for membership of AASW. Demonstrated post graduate clinical experience in mental health. Psychologists require a relevant Masters degree, Allied Health require experience as a level 2 clinician or equivalent. Nursing require relevant post registration qualifications and at least 3 years’ experience working in the clinical area of their specified post-graduate qualifications or such other qualifications or relevant equivalent experience.
- Please outline your experience in working with young people in mental health crisis.
- Describe your knowledge/experience of Safe Havens and your views of their usefulness.

Need more information?
- NSW Health is committed to implementing the _Child Safe Standards_._

**Applications Close: 20 May 2025**

**Tentative Interview Dates: 29 May 2025