Senior Mental Health Clinician – Join Our Crisis Response Team!

Temporary Part-Time! Join our dedicated multidisciplinary mental health team as a Senior Mental Health Clinician (Psychologist, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker). You'll provide expert mental health triage, crisis intervention and recovery-focused care across the Redlands Crisis Support Space and Emergency Department Mental Health service, while mentoring staff and contributing to service improvement.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Mental Health Clinician, you'll play a vital role in providing compassionate, evidence-based mental health care for consumers experiencing crisis. Working within a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you'll support timely assessments, care planning and safe recovery-focused interventions while contributing to service excellence.

In this role you will:

• Deliver high-quality mental health triage, assessment and therapeutic interventions in crisis settings.
• Provide senior clinical leadership, supervision and support to clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.
• Collaborate with consumers, carers, emergency department staff and community partners to achieve positive recovery outcomes.
• Lead and contribute to quality improvement, service development and evidence-based clinical practice.

About you:

You're an experienced Allied Health professional who thrives in fast-paced clinical environments and is passionate about delivering person-centred mental health care.

You'll bring:

• Extensive experience providing mental health assessment, crisis intervention and recovery-oriented care.
• Strong clinical judgement with the ability to prioritise complex presentations and make informed decisions independently.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to clinical leadership, mentoring staff and driving continuous service improvement.

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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)
  
  MS08687584 Role Description (PDF)