Join our multidisciplinary team as a Senior Mental Health Clinician and make a real impact on the lives of young people. You'll provide advanced services to children and adolescents with complex mental health and substance use disorders who are involved with the justice system.

Job details

About the Team

The Forensic Child and Youth Mental Health Service is a specialist Program within the Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service and is also part of the broader Queensland Forensic Mental Health Service. Forensic CYMHS provides assessment and treatment services to young people with mental health issues and significant behavioural disturbance that have resulted/or place them at elevated risk of involvement with the criminal justice system.

About the Role

• Deliver high level clinical services in accordance with the discipline specific Code of Ethics and the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce.
• Demonstrate high level knowledge and skill in a speciality of Forensic Mental Health practice.
• Apply independent professional judgment, based on valid and reliable evidence, to a complex caseload to continuously contribute to the development of best practice services within the child and youth forensic mental health team.
• Provide high level specialised forensic mental health advice and risk assessment reports and work collaboratively with team members to provide multi-disciplinary intervention for service consumers and their stakeholders.
• Provide high-level knowledge and skill to team training and continuing professional development activities to contribute to the knowledge and skills of the forensic mental health team.
• Develop, implement and evaluate within the service unit, quality activities and forensic mental health practice to continually improve the care of young offenders with severe and complex mental health problems.
• Provide supervision, training and support in a specialist area to staff and training and supervision to students as delegated by the relevant Discipline Director.
• Provide orientation, ongoing training and support, mentoring and clinical practice supervision where required to less experienced forensic mental health clinicians in collaboration with the Team Leader and Consultant Psychiatrist.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.

Further information

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

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

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

• Snr Mental Health Clinician - Role Description (PDF, 690KB)
  Role Description
  
  CHQ_Applicant Toolkit_2025 (PDF, 862KB)
  Application Kit
  
  CHQ_Information for Applicants_2025 (PDF, 837KB)
  Information Package for Applicants