Mental Health Complex Care Clinician

Posted: 07/08/2025

Closing Date: 21/08/2025

Salary: $100,786.02 - $105,350.50

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Kaurna Country, Sonder & headspace Edinburgh North

Job Category: Healthcare & Medical

**Who are we?**

Sonder is an inclusive, not-for-profit organisation that has been providing better quality health and support services to the South Australian community since 1993. We support thousands of people each year to access services across seven key domains - Mental Health, Aboriginal Health, Alcohol and/or other Drugs, Employment, Community Health, Disability, and Homelessness

**What benefits can we offer?**

When you work with Sonder, you become part of the Sonder family and that provides you with a number of benefits such as:

- Salary (excluding super) paid above award and reviewed annually
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development allowance provided yearly
- Generous salary packaging options - increase your take home pay by 6-12%
- 17.5% Leave Loading
- Modern and welcoming office spaces
- Christmas Closure Bonus Leave (above annual leave entitlements)
- Training opportunities
- Meal & entertainment allowances
- Paid parental leave, and much more

Sonder are open to negotiating further benefits with the successful applicant to ensure an excellent working environment for you.

**Hours**:Full time and part time positions available (1.7FTE available)

**Contract**:Ongoing

**Location**:Working across multiple sites including Edinburgh North, Port Adelaide and various Local Health Network Locations as required.

**About the Role**:
The Mental Health Complex Care Clinician will work as part of a multidisciplinary mental health team to deliver focused psychological interventions for individuals with chronic complex tier 3 disorder.
The Mental Health Complex Care Clinician will include:

- Providing clinical therapeutic services (individual) to clients with low prevalence, high complexity disorders within the Sonder service areas.
- Planning and implementing assessment and treatment services
- Group program development and implementation where appropriate and necessary
- Liaison and consultation with other professional employees
- Participation in individual and group supervision, and attendance at team meetings and external meetings

**Experience Requirements**:

- A minimum 2 years supervised experience in the area of Mental Health
- A minimum 2 years relevant professional development and or supervision.
- Experience in delivering cognitive behaviour therapy, recovery orientated interventions, harm minimisation interventions, and other evidence based mental health & AOD interventions.
- Experience in care coordination in a Mental Health setting
- Demonstrated experience working within a fast-paced environment.

**Qualification and Other Requirements**:

- Drivers Licence
- Current or willing to obtain a Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
- Current Child Safe Environments
- National Police Clearance
- Qualified in one of the following disciplines and membership to associated professional body; Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or Mental Health Nursing
- Psychologists, Occupational Therapists and Mental Health Nurses must be registered with AHPRA
- Occupational Therapist must have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience working in mental health
- Social workers must have Accredited Mental Health Social Work Status with AASW
- Mental Health Nurses must be accredited with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
- Qualifications and credentialing outside these minimum qualifications needs to satisfy the requirements of and be agreed upon by Sonder and its commissioning agencies.

**How to apply**:
**Advert Closing Date**:21 August 2025