Mental Health Clinician - Social Worker, Registered Nurse or Occupational Therapist

  • 55 North Parade , Mt Druitt, NSW, Australia, 2770
  • Children, Youth and Families Services
  • Medical and Allied Health
  • Nursing
  • Full time closed period contract
  • Closing on: May 24 2024
  • Mental Health Social Worker or Registered Nurse or Occupational Therapist
  • Join a multi-disciplinary team in community mental health
  • Attractive salary + Generous salary packaging benefits (pay less tax)
  • Avail of specialist clinical group supervision and continuous training   

What you’ll be doing

As a Mental Health Clinician you will provide evidence- based clinical case management, assessment, and psychological interventions to clients in the community with mental illness.  You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive, therapeutic mental health services to clients.

Your role may include:

  • Triage, intake and assessment
  • Conduct biopsychosocial assessments and case formulations
  • Provide evidence-based focused psychological and behavioural interventions
  • Perform functional assessments
  • Collaborate in shared care approaches, such as joint sessions with the referring Uniting team, case review discussions, and documentation/reports to share information and make recommendations
  • Facilitate mental health service linkage and navigation, including care coordination
  • Conduct individual and/or group sessions to support individuals' mental health and wellbeing

Who we’re looking for

  • You’ll have Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Nursing or Social Work.  Membership to AHPRA Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, or eligibility for membership to AASW Australian Association of Social Workers
  • 1-3 years’ experience of clinical practice field within the mental health providing high quality triage, assessment and evidence based psychological interventions
  • Ability to collaboratively plan and coordinate a comprehensive bio-psychosocial approach and interventions to meet the needs of clients.

About Uniting Mental health programs

Uniting is the lead agency for LikeMind Seven Hills and Penrith.  LikeMind's purpose is to provide wrap-around services to consumers with a variety of mental health, physical health and psycho-social needs.  It will bring together existing community health services in an accessible, centralised and engaging community space.  The four pillars of the service are - mental health, drug and alcohol, primary care, and vocational/ employment services. 

headspace Penrith and Mount Druitt, run by Uniting, aims to reduce the burden of disease in young people aged 12-25 years caused by mental health and related substance use disorders through early identification and effective, evidence-based intervention.

Why work at Uniting?

To help you thrive in your work you’ll have access to a range of benefits that support you in your role and outside of work. Because when our people thrive, we have an even greater impact for the people we serve.

  • Competitive salary and NFP salary packaging benefits (extra $18,550 tax free)
  • Flexible working options
  • Career development and progression opportunities
  • A range of health and wellbeing support
  • Genuinely make a positive impact on the lives of real people – our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve

For more information, please contact Rose Rivera, Talent Acquisition Specialist on 0438 206 164 or rrivera@uniting.org

Job reference number:  502875

Apply Now

Not You?

You'll now be directed to a page to complete your application.

You might also be interested in

Hotel Services

ACT 504874 Weston ACT Australia Weston, ACT, 2611 Residential Aged Care Aged Care Casual
Uniting is currently seeking a hotel service employee to join the team at Uniting Gordon.

Care Worker

Southern NSW - Wollongong, Illawara and South Coast 504822 Eden NSW Australia Eden, NSW, 2551 Residential Aged Care Care Worker Casual
Carers choose Uniting because of our great staff remuneration and tax benefits and our commitment to your professional development.

Sign up to Job Alerts

Not You?

Thank you