Mental Health Clinician

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Location**:Station Street, Penrith Office
**Hours Per Week**: 24
**Requisition ID**: REQ571909
**Application Close**: 19/05/2025

**Position Classification & Remuneration**: Dependant on qualifications

Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Counsellor Level 3: $56.68 - $58.52 per hour
Snr Psychologist: $60.12 - $62.63 per hour
Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2: $57.11 - $58.98 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 offer a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centres. Our mu**ltidiscipli**nary 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.

Child, Youth and Family Mental Health (CYF-MH) provides services to children, young people, and their families in the Nepean and Blue Mountains community where mental health issues are seriously impacting on their emotional wellbeing, relationships, and day to day functioning. CYF-MH offers mental health assessment, psychoeducation, clinical support, and specialist intervention services. CYF-MH is committed to working in partnership with families and the systems around them to provide person centred, trauma informed and recovery orientated care.

The successful incumbent, within their professional scope of practice, provide mental health and psychosocial assessments of adults and children, intensive case management, specialist individual and family-based interventions, referral, and psychoeducation to family members in accordance with relevant guidelines and literature. Facilitation of skills-based group interventions that may be provided to groups of families or groups of individuals from families receiving intervention from the WFT.

**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 qualification and AHPRA registration or eligible member of professional association and experience. OT: Recognised qualification, with AHPRA registration; significant clinical experience in mental health setting. SW: Bachelor’s Degree; eligible for membership of AASW; significant clinical experience in mental health setting. Cnsllr: Bachelor’s degree in counselling or related field; significant experience in mental health setting. CNS: Relevant post-registration qualification & minimum 3 yrs experience in mental health setting. Snr Psych: Four-year degree in psychology (three-year degree + 4th year honours) or qualifications deemed equivalent by the LHD, AHPRA registered psychologist. Current Snr Psychologist or eligible for Snr Psychologist grading (no less than 12mos service at 9th year of service and thereafter rate).
- Demonstrated competence in delivering family focused, evidence based clinical assessment and intervention with a complex caseload in a community setting. This includes specialist knowledge of comorbid mental health and drug and alcohol problems, intra-familial child abuse and neglect, and contemporary family focused integrated treatment including risk assessment and safety planning
- Demonstrated advanced reasoning skills with proven ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team with mínimal direct clinical supervision.
- Demonstrated capacity to act as an independent consultant and clinical leader in the specialty area of family focused mental health.
- Demonstrated partnership building and negotiation skills with a wide range of service providers and well developed understanding of the interface between services.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the historical and contemporary issues which may impact on Australian Aboriginal family functioning and ability to provide a culturally appropriate service.
- Current Driver's Licence and willingness to use for work purpose travel.

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