Senior Mental Health Clinician – The Way Back Service!

Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services (MSAMHS) as a Senior Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Psychologist and play a pivotal role in supporting people following a suicidal crisis. As the Clinical Care Coordinator for The Way Back Service, you will provide expert clinical leadership, coordinate seamless care pathways, and strengthen partnerships between health services and community providers to improve recovery outcomes and reduce the risk of future suicide attempts.

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Your new role:

As the Social Worker or Occupational Therapist or Psychologist - Senior, you will provide advanced discipline-specific clinical services while coordinating care between MSAMHS and The Way Back Support Service. You will play a key role in supporting consumers through their recovery journey and ensuring integrated, patient-centred care.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based assessments, interventions and care coordination for consumers with complex mental health needs.
• Lead collaboration between clinical teams and The Way Back Support Service to ensure seamless transitions and continuity of care.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and education to less experienced clinicians, students and support staff.
• Drive service improvement initiatives, quality activities and stakeholder engagement to enhance consumer outcomes.

About you:

You are an experienced and compassionate allied health professional with a passion for suicide prevention, recovery-oriented practice and collaborative care.

You Will Bring

• Demonstrated expertise in mental health assessment, intervention and care coordination within complex clinical environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships across services.
• Proven ability to provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience contributing to service development, quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives.

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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:

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS07685475_NG Role Description (PDF)
  
  MS07685475_HP Role Description (PDF)