Senior Mental Health Clinician

New year, new start, new job Is it time for you to use your clinical experience and skills at the next level?

Join Queensland Corrective Services at Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (SQCC) and help shape lives of women through evidence-based mental health care in a unique, culturally diverse environment. This Centre, near Gatton in the Lockyer Valley, is a high-security facility for female prisoners, with a strong focus on rehabilitation, vocational training programs and reintegration for positive post-release outcomes.

You can enjoy a quiet lifestyle and tranquillity that a rural community has to offer while being only 30 minutes' drive to Toowoomba or 1.5 hours from Brisbane – the best of both worlds.

About The Role
Join Queensland Corrective Services at Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (SQCC) and help shape lives of women through evidence-based mental health care in a unique, culturally diverse environment. This Centre, near Gatton in the Lockyer Valley, is a high-security facility for female prisoners, with a strong focus on rehabilitation, vocational training programs and reintegration for positive post-release outcomes.

You can enjoy a quiet lifestyle and tranquillity that a rural community has to offer while being only 30 minutes drive to Toowoomba or 1.5 hours from Brisbane - the best of both worlds.

These new roles provide high-level clinical services within a multi-disciplinary team. It gives you the opportunity to broaden your leadership skills as you assist the Senior Psychologist/Mental Team Leader with various activities that help ensure the smooth and efficient provision of these crucial services within the Centre.

Why Choose Us

• New Role: QCS is expanding its teams statewide to introduce new roles and disciplines so you can be one of the first to embed this role and make it a success.
• Clinical Expertise: Conduct interventions, assessments and consultations that contribute to behaviour support and management plans, while being able to operate independently to manage complex cases and situations.
• Professional Growth: Strengthen your current experience by working with a broad range of psychological presentations, expanding your clinical knowledge.
• Leadership Opportunity: Your clinical supervision and mentorship will contribute to team performance, capability learning, and retention.
• Supportive Culture: Work within a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, professional team providing mental health services in a dynamic operating environment.
• Service Delivery: Assist the Senior Psychologist/ Mental Health Team Leader to sustain a service focused team and culture through task allocation, knowledge sharing, recruitment and onboarding.

Your Impact

• Advanced clinical capability, with the confidence to deliver high-quality clinical services in complex, high-demand environments where adaptability and a thoughtful approach to practice is key.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to build effective relationships across multidisciplinary teams, provide expert advice, with the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and contribute to professional discussions.
• Professional integrity, with a thorough understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities in psychological practice, and a commitment to professional accountability.
• Cultural capability and inclusive practice, with a commitment to delivering services that are responsive to the needs of First Nations and other diverse populations.

Mandatory Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology or Occupational Therapy with relevant registration with AHPRA, or tertiary qualifications in Social Work with membership to AASW highly desirable.
• Minimum two years' post-graduate experience in mental health (desirable).
• C Class Driver's Licence.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

For more information, contact QCS Mental Health Careers team at

We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. If you have a health condition, disability, or cultural or linguistic background that requires adjustments, please let our Talent Acquisition team know. We will support you to participate equitably throughout the recruitment process.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/674308/25

Closing Date: Sunday, 18th January 2026

Occupational group
Health - Mental Health Clinicians