Mental Health Clinician

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (up to 19/08/2027)

Location: 606 High Street, Penrith

Hours Per Week: 24

Requisition ID: REQ599078

Application Close: 01/09/2025

Position Classification & Remuneration: Dependent on Qualifications

Social Worker or Occupational Therapist Level 1/2: $ $52.83 per hour

Psychologist: $ $57.10 per hour

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment

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 offers a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centres. Our multidisciplinary 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.

Join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) team as a Mental Health Clinician, delivering community-based mental health care to children and young people aged 5–18 and their families. This role focuses on rapid, developmentally appropriate assessment and person-centred care, tailored to each family's needs, whether through outreach or local services.

You'll play a vital part in reducing hospital admissions by providing assertive risk management and early intervention. Working closely with young people and their support networks, you'll deliver evidence-based therapeutic care, strengthen relationships across home, school and community, and empower families to improve mental health outcomes.

As a key member of our interdisciplinary team, you'll help shape best practice and ensure care is delivered in the most accessible and effective setting possible. Apply now

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 achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.

What you will bring to the role

• Recognised tertiary qualification in psychology or occupational therapy, with current registration with AHPRA, or social work and eligibility for membership of AASW.
• Demonstrated skills to apply professional knowledge and skills in a complex child and youth mental health setting, including evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of family systems and ability to work therapeutically with families to improve mental health outcomes for children and young people.
• Demonstrated understanding of childhood trauma, child protection and domestic and other violence as they relate to child and youth mental health.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to utilise a range of information systems.
• Demonstrated skills in evidence-based practice, quality improvement and capacity to participate in research projects to evaluate and develop practice.
• NSW Driver's License Class C (including P1 or above) and willingness to use same for work purposes

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

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