Support post-disaster recovery as a Senior Mental Health Clinician

We’re seeking an experienced and compassionate Senior Mental Health Clinician to join the Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Service (Disaster Flood Team) based at Logan Central. This temporary full-time opportunity until 30 June 2026 offers the chance to provide high-quality, trauma-informed mental health support to communities recovering from natural disasters. You’ll deliver profession-specific clinical services and lead recovery initiatives.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Mental Health Clinician, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering post-disaster recovery and trauma-focused services within a collaborative and compassionate team environment. You'll use your advanced clinical expertise to provide assessment, intervention, and ongoing support to individuals impacted by disaster events, while contributing to quality improvement and service development.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver trauma-informed, evidence-based mental health care to individuals and families.
• Provide leadership, supervision, and mentorship to junior clinicians and students.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary and community networks to ensure continuity of care.
• Contribute to service development, research, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support education and capacity-building in disaster mental health preparedness.

About you:

You're a skilled, compassionate professional who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments. You bring advanced clinical judgement, empathy, and resilience — alongside a strong commitment to recovery-focused care and collaborative practice.

Your skills and experience include:

• Tertiary qualification and registration (Psychologist, OT, or Social Worker).
• Demonstrated experience in mental health, trauma, or disaster recovery.
• Strong clinical leadership, mentoring, and supervisory capabilities.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and evidence-based practice.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

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 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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  MS10663959 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)