Senior Mental Health Clinician

Job Description:

• Role Title: Senior Mental Health Clinician

• Role Type: Max-term Full-time Part time till January 2026

• Role Grade: Level 3 or CNE Level 2

• Department and Location: Homeless Health Service St Vincents Hospital Darlinghurst

• Salary: $112396 - $134500 (Pro-Rata) Super Salary Packaging

Better and fairer care. Always.
We are St Vincents Health Australia Australias largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services.

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857 our 30000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals residential aged care community and virtual care and outreach programs.

About the Role:

• Max-term full-time role delivering high quality evidence-based mental health care and support to clients of the Wesley Mission SHS Team who live with mental illness and are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.

• Deliver comprehensive assessments clinical intervention care coordination and referral on outreach alongside Wesley Mission staff.

• Collaborate with clients multidisciplinary team Wesley Mission and stakeholders to address cultural holistic health and support needs using a strengths-based harm reduction approach.

• Build strong partnerships and coordinate care with service providers and communities to strengthen client support networks.

• Assist clients in accessing mainstream and specialist healthcare support services and stable accommodation to improve health and wellbeing outcomes.

• Lead staff education contribute to clinical reviews and drive quality improvement across services.

About You:

• Skilled compassionate Social Worker Occupational Therapist or Registered Nurse with current AHPRA registration or eligibility for AASW membership plus post-graduate qualifications.

• At least 3 years experience delivering mental health assessment treatment and care coordination to people with complex health and support needs who are also experiencing homelessness.

• Strong understanding of homelessness trauma-informed care strengths-based frameworks and committed to clinical supervision and professional development.

• Confident senior team member who drives service development education and quality improvement initiatives with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Tech-savvy and mobile comfortable with digital health records and holds a current NSW Drivers Licence.

Why Work at St Vincents

• Join us on our mission to provide care to all including the most at-risk people in our community

• Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport

• Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank

• Access to a government salary sacrifice program to make a proportion of your salary tax-free

• Financial support for educational development scholarship programs paid study leave

About the Hospital:
In this role you will be based at St Vincents Hospital Darlinghurst.

• A busy inner-city hospital in a beautiful location

• Surrounded by great cafes galleries and theatres parks nightlife and nearby glorious beaches

• A place of expert clinical care for at-risk people

• Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes many of which are located on-campus

• Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation bone marrow transplantation cardiology cancer care AIDS/HIV respiratory medicine mental health homeless health drug & alcohol services and correctional health

Pre-employment Checks:
Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks including relevant immunisations.

Equal Opportunity:
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

How to Apply:
The closing date for applications is 24 July 2025

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting how your interest skills and experience align with the role and address each of the criteria.

Further information please contact

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincents we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming safe equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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