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Senior Mental Health Clinician
Capricornia Correctional Centre; Custodial Operations; Custodial Operations; Etna Creek
Start the new year in a role where you can take your clinical skills and experience to the next level.
Enjoy a new role while living a relaxed coastal lifestyle on the Capricorn Coast or live in Rockhampton where you can balance city convenience with many local attractions and activities.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Flexible full-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Mental Health Clinicians |
| Classification | PO4 |
| Workplace Location | Rockhampton region |
| Job ad reference | QLD/673677/25 |
| Closing date | 11-Jan-2026 |
| Job duration | |
| Contact person | Kylie Mackie |
| Contact details | Phone: 3565 7384 Access the National Relay Service |
About the Role:
It is a 30 minute drive from Rockhampton City to our recently upgraded Capricornia Correctional Centre, where you have an opportunity to help shape lives through evidence-based mental health care in a unique, culturally diverse environment. In this Centre, the team undertake interventions, assessments, risk management and behavioural management support to assist improving the wellbeing for people in our care.
This newly created, senior role will provide high-level clinical services within a multidisciplinary team. You will also be able to broaden your leadership skills as you assist the Senior Psychologist/Mental Health Team Leader with various activities that help ensure the smooth and efficient provision of these crucial services within the Centre.
Why Choose Us:
- New Role: QCS is expanding its teams statewide to introduce new roles and disciplines so you can be one of the first to embed this role and make it a success.
- Clinical Expertise. Provide clinical consultations and expertise while being able to operate independently to manage complex cases and situations.
- Professional Growth: Strengthen your current experience working with a broad range of psychological presentations that will expand your clinical knowledge.
- Leadership Opportunity: Your clinical supervision and mentorship will contribute to team performance, capability learning, and retention.
- Supportive Culture: Work with a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, professional team providing mental health services within a dynamic operating environment.
- Service Delivery: Assist the Team Leader to sustain a service focused team and culture through task allocation, knowledge sharing, recruitment and onboarding
About You:
- Advanced clinical capability, with the confidence to deliver high-quality psychological services in complex, high-demand environments where adaptability and a thoughtful approach to practice are key.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to build effective relationships across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, provide expert advice, and contribute to clinical discussions.
- Professional integrity and accountability, with a thorough understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities in psychological practice.
- Cultural capability and inclusive practice, with a commitment to delivering services responsive to the mental health needs of culturally diverse populations.
- Provide clinical practice supervision, and facilitate the development of critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills.
Mandatory Requirements:
- Tertiary qualifications in Psychology or Occupational Therapy with relevant registration with AHPRA, or tertiary qualifications in Social Work with membership to AASW highly desirable.
- Minimum two years' post-graduate experience in mental health (desirable).
- C Class Driver's Licence.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.
For more information, contact QCS Mental Health Careers team at 07 3565 7252.
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.
Job Ad Reference: QLD/673677/25
Closing Date: Sunday, 11th January 2026
Further information
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