• Be part of a new mental health model offering career-defining experience
• Help develop clinical capability in your team
• Leave your day at the door to support your work life balance

Job details

Senior Mental Health Clinicians (2 roles)

About the roles:

These busy, new senior clinical roles are available at our Wolston and Brisbane Correctional Centres, Wacol. They are the perfect opportunity for an experienced mental health clinician to step into the next level role on their career journey. QCS recently expanded their psychology workforce and service model to include social workers and occupational therapists. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide services that help shape lives through evidence-based mental health care.

Providing high level clinical services, interventions and assessments, you will contribute to the development of support and management plans compliant with QCS protocols. Some cases will be complex and challenging which is where your professional expertise and judgement will be fully utilized.

Building partnerships and stakeholder relationships is integral to this role and will require your excellent interpersonal and engagement strengths.

As a mentor and role model within the team, you will provide professional supervision that facilitates the development of critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills in Mental Health Clinicians, whilst taking the first step into a leadership role.

If these roles are of interest, it's time to get your application ready.

So why choose us?

• New service model: QCS introduced new roles and disciplines to provide mental health services, so be one of the first to embed this role and make it a success
• Clinical expertise: operate independently to provide clinical services to manage complex situations and presentations.
• Assist the Team Leader: work closely with Mental Health Team Leaders, while supporting clinical tasks, case conferencing, and supervisory requirements.
• Build capability: your supervision and feedback will help uplift team capability and knowledge while simultaneously building your own leadership capabilities.
• Solutions focussed: use your strong analytical and problem-solving skills to respond to the role dynamics and changing priorities.

About you:

• Demonstrable expertise providing clinical services of a complex nature
• Able to provide clinical practice supervision to less experienced clinicians
• Use your high-calibre interpersonal and communication skills to build effective working relationships and negotiate outcomes with a variety of stakeholders
• Well-developed written communication skills with ability to produce excellent quality professional reports and case notes
• Ability to interpret and apply legislation, policies and procedures in both clinical and team support contexts

Mandatory Requirements:

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology and membership with APHRA; or
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy or Social Work, with eligibility for membership or registration with AHPRA and/or AASW;
• C Class Driver's Licence; and
• Post-graduate qualifications in mental health would be highly regarded

Applications to remain current for 12 months. Suitable applicants from this process may also be considered for a suitability pool for subsequent identical or similar vacancies that occur within 12 months of the closing date of this advertisement which may include vacancies within other centres.

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.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/687858/26

Closing Date: Tuesday, 26th May 2026

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Please ensure you download all attachments and follow the instructions on how to apply.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 687858 26 - Role Description (PDF, 630KB)
  
  
  687858 26 - Applicant Information Guide (PDF, 957KB)