Community Mental Health Clinician

Community Mental Health Clinician

Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), Community Mental Health Service - Young – is looking for a motivated and skilled CAMHS Mental Health Clinician. In this role you will be responsible for delivering holistic, person-centred and trauma-informed care to children and adolescents with complex mental health needs and their families and carers. You will be collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to assess, plan and deliver comprehensive, mental health care to the regional community of Young and surrounds.

Our benefits:

• Family-friendly hours
• Mentally stimulating work
• Endless opportunities for professional and personal growth
• Potential for fast-tracked career progression
• Salary packaging, novated leasing, and Health and Wellbeing Support
• Relocation support considerations
• 482 Visa Sponsorship considerations

Employment type: Full time, part time and casual opportunities

Position classification: Dependent on qualifications (see Position Description)

Renumeration: $72, $113,226.00 per annum, pro rata (+ super +17.5% leave loading where applicable)

Hours per week: up to 38

Requisition ID: REQ604319

Location: Young

Who we are:

The Young CMHAOD team has approximately 10 multidisciplinary clinicians and a range of support staff, who provide MH AOD services, across the life span. Young CMHAOD is collocated with Young Health Service.

We work closely with Medicare Mental Health and other community organisations to ensure people receive the right care for their needs. At a district level we have access to clinical leaders for MH, AOD and other specialty services such as Aboriginal Mental Health, eating disorders and Perinatal Infant Mental Health.

To learn more about Mental Health Drug and Alcohol in Murrumbidgee click here

What you'll be doing:

The focus is on Children and Adolescents with acute, complex or high needs who require a specialist mental health approach.

Identified outcomes are:

• Successful therapeutic engagement with children and adolescents experiencing or at risk of developing severe mental illness.
• Better experience of care through integrated and coordinated service models.
• Prevention of unnecessary hospitalisations through timely access to appropriate and targeted clinical care
• Active use of a multiagency care plan for the child or young person with, or at risk of, severe and complex mental illness, to help link providers across multiple services involved in a young person's care
• Improved support for families and carers of children and adolescents experiencing severe mental illness

Our priority populations include school aged children and adolescents who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, are from culturally and linguistically diverse background, identify as LGBTIQ+, who are experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage, who are at risk of withdrawing from education or employment, who have experienced trauma, or who are at risk of hospitalisation.

To learn more about Health facilities in Young click here.

What MHDA offer:

As our employee you will have access to education and training to support your professional development. We have formal partnerships with a range of statewide health organisations who provide access to monthly education events, for example OCD Bounce, Project Air, CAPTOS and Mind Gardens. Internally we provide opportunities to meet and learn with your peers in other teams, participate in supervision for therapeutic practices, individual and group reflective practice and team huddles. We are also working toward offering a structured programme for new entrants into mental health that articulates with a graduate certificate.

Criteria:

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

• Qualification as per classification listed in position description
• Membership of the peak body professional association for Social Workers or Occupational Therapists, Nurses AHPRA
• NSW Working with children clearance

More information:

1) Download the position description

2) Find out more about applying for this position.

For role related queries or questions contact Anne Clancy, Nurse Manager - Young at or

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.

Applications close: 16 October 2025

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