Mental Health Community Clinician

Requisition No: 4204
- Executive Division: Operations
- Division: Mental Health & Wellbeing Services
- Program: Mental Health Services
- Department: Community Team Outer - MWAMHS
- Enterprise Agreement: Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise
- Job Function: Mental Health
- Project:
**Mental Health Clinician - Case Management (Key Clinician)**
**Location**: Melton - Outer Community Team, Western Health Mental Health & Wellbeing Service
**Classification**: RPN3 / OT2 / SW2
**Employment Type**: Full Time
**Work Schedule**: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (40 hours per week) with an Accrued Day Off (ADO)

We are seeking a dedicated Mental Health Clinician to join our Outer Community Team at Western Health. This is a key clinician role, responsible for the coordination and delivery of high-quality, recovery-oriented mental health care to a group of allocated consumers living in the community.

You'll be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team committed to providing evidence-based, person-centred care to consumers with complex mental health needs. Our service operates across the growing communities of Melton and parts of Brimbank, offering both challenge and opportunity.

**What You'll Be Doing**
- Act as the key clinician for a caseload of consumers with serious mental illness
- Provide holistic, recovery-focused assessment, planning, intervention, and review
- Engage with families, carers, and community supports to enhance continuity of care
- Support consumers through periods of crisis, transition, and stabilisation
- Collaborate with internal teams and external agencies to advocate for consumer needs
- Maintain high-quality clinical documentation using electronic systems
- Contribute to team portfolios, service development, and quality improvement

**What You'll Bring**
- Minimum 2 years' experience in a mental health clinical setting, ideally within a community-based service
- Qualifications and current registration as one of the following:

- Registered Psychiatric Nurse (Division 1)
- Occupational Therapist
- Social Worker
- Knowledge of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act (2022) and recovery-oriented practice
- Excellent interpersonal, clinical, and documentation skills
- Victorian Driver's Licence

**What We Offer**
- Supportive, multidisciplinary team culture
- Regular supervision and professional development opportunities
- Scope to take on portfolio roles and contribute to service improvement
- Strong focus on work-life balance and staff wellbeing

**Position Description**

**About Western Health**

Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne's western suburbs.

With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.

We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women's health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.

We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia's most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.

Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women's and Children's), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women's prison located in Ravenhall.

**Why join us?**

**Compensation and benefits**
- Competitive salary packages aligned with market standards.
- Health and wellbeing programs, including flexible work arrangements.
- Scholarships and grants to support your continuous learning journey.

**Learning and development opportunities**
- Access the Western Health Learning Academy (WHA) for personalised learning pathways.
- Professional growth programs, including postgraduate studies and clinical education.
- Mentorship and career support.

**Community impact and inclusion**
- Make a meaningful difference in patients' lives through compassionate care.
- Join a workforce that champions diversity and inclusion.
- Engage in community wellbeing initiatives and groundbreaking healthcare research.

**Organisational culture and environment**
- Thrive in a collaborative, compassionate and innovative team en