Mental Health Clinician

• Part time/Full time permanent opportunities available?
• SACs level 6 Pay point 1 classification $110,110 + Rotating Roster + 12% super + salary packaging benefits
• Access to Accrued Days Off + Melton location
• Be a changemaker and contribute meaningfully to the lives of our clients and communities in a new and innovative model of care for people with mental ill health and/or emotional distress.

The Opportunity

• Be part of a new innovative mental health and wellbeing service at the recently established Melton Local.
• Make a difference to the community and our clients by providing specialist and evidence-based support for people with mental ill health and emotional distress.
• Work in a new dynamic and diverse multi-agency and multidisciplinary team that believes in person centred, trauma informed and recovery-oriented care.
• Collaborate and walk alongside our clients to help them achieve real outcomes meaningful to them.
• Utilise and further develop your therapeutic skills, clinical expertise and leadership skills.

About the Service

The Adult and Older Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing services, otherwise known as "Locals", are a key recommendation from Victoria's Royal Commission into the mental health service system. As such, the Locals are a key feature of the current system transformation.

The Locals will act as a front door to the mental health service system and will provide a continuum of care and support including clinical interventions, wellbeing supports, and therapeutic support through an integrated mental health and alcohol and other drug framework approach.

Mind Australia is the lead agency in a consortium for the Melton Local which comprises of IPC Health, Western Health, and Thorne Harbour Health. Our shared vision is a Local that delivers integrated support that puts the person accessing the service at the very centre of their treatment, support and care coordination using a range of evidence informed approaches. The consortium is committed to embedding lived and living experience and expertise within all aspects of the service including program design and evaluation, leadership, service delivery and governance.

Based at our Melton location, this position is a Full-Time ongoing Mental Health Clinician role and is classified as Level 6 under the Community Health Centre (stand-alone services) Social and community services employee multi-enterprise agreement 2022.

You will make a difference by

• Providing high quality one-on-one support to assist people you are working with to achieve their goals and/or address their mental health and/or drug and alcohol challenges.
• Supporting a caseload of people seeking service, your role will be to coordinate care with people with multifaceted needs with internal and external services dependant on the persons goals, needs and preferences.
• Using your clinical expertise and skills to competently deliver a range of evidence - based mental health interventions (including through care planning and review, therapeutic interventions such as CBT, DBT or motivational interviewing) individually and/or in group settings.
• Providing guidance to clinical and non-clinical staff (such as Community Mental Health Practitioners, Peer Support workers, and other specialist therapeutic roles) in relation to clinical issues and considerations for treatment, care and care planning.
• Providing a point of escalation and/or secondary consultation, particularly with service users who have multifaceted mental health needs.
• Demonstrating a commitment to system transformation and the role of the Melton Local to deliver services that meet community need and expectations.

To succeed you will need

• Current registration or professional membership within relevant discipline (i.e., AHPRA, AMHSW, AASW, PACFA or ACA)
• Qualifications in Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, Counselling, Provisional Psych (under supervision) or other relevant discipline
• Current Victorian driver's licence − minimum two-year experience in the mental health sector including skills and experience in motivational interviewing, stages of change, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), trauma informed care, strengths and recovery focussed approach and clinical risk assessment
• Demonstrated clinical assessment, planning and implementation across a spectrum of acuity and across service intervention types in a timely way

We will offer you

• Flexibility We work in a flexible, creative and adaptable way to best support our staff and clients. Access plenty of options to flex your work and life commitments through our Flexing with IPC Health program.
• Learning and development Our people are supported to act on opportunities that expand their expertise, knowledge and confidence. Opportunity to explore and participate in our Innovation and Professional Development Framework.
• Supportive Environment Connection is our strength. We respect and support each other and work collaboratively to create a force of good. Be inspired and well supported by our passionate leaders and creative staff.
• Celebrate achievements Feel valued and recognised as an important part of One Team IPC Health. Your contributions matter. Be part of an award winning supportive organisation that values and celebrates growth through our Recognition Program and Wellbeing and Celebrations Committee.
• Attractive Benefits Generous salary packaging benefits including novated leasing and meals and entertainment, up to 14 weeks paid parental leave, access to accrued days off, free onsite car parking, free and confidential employee assistance program.

What next?

If you are passionate, creative and want to make a difference, we want to hear from you. All you need to do is visit our careers page, read the role's Position Description/Success Profile, submit your resume and respond to a few short questions.

To find out more about the role, please contact Chris Schildt, Clinical Manager of the Melton Local ).

Applications close on Friday 31 October 2025

Our Story

We are One Team IPC Health. We are passionate we go above and beyond, demonstrating understanding and respect for our communities and each other. We make a difference we act with purpose, measure our results and celebrate our achievements. We are creative we learn, experiment and innovate.

At IPC Health, we are visionaries for community health and wellbeing. We are changemakers. Innovation in action is at the heart of everything we do, because we know that innovation can create amazing change and have an incredible and far reaching impact for individuals, our communities, and for our industry. We prioritise those who face obstacles to getting health services tailored to their needs and work with and for them in a deeply connected way. This enables us to acutely understand their needs and challenges. We live and breathe our passion to create new and better ways to deliver holistic health services for our vastly different and diverse clients and communities – so that they can thrive and experience greater health and wellbeing both individually and together.

We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment for all and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and the LGBTI communities to apply for our job opportunities.

If you require a reasonable workplace adjustment to support you during the interview process please email  with your request. Reasonable workplace adjustments are changes that are necessary and achievable to enable a person to efficiently perform their role to the best of their abilities. A reasonable workplace adjustment can be requested at any time in the recruitment process or as a part of employment with IPC Health.

• Success Profile/Position Description