Employment Type: Fixed Term Part-time

Hours per fortnight: 64 hours per fortnight

Job Category: RPN3, Psychology 2, OT3, SW3

Req Id: 8809

About The Role

Join a progressive, multidisciplinary Infant and Child Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (ICMHWS) within MHDAS at Barwon Health, one of Victoria’s largest regional health services. ICMHWS provides high quality best practice assessment and treatment to women in the perinatal period, and infants and children aged 0-11 years experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties. This role provides high-level direct care to children, their families, and supervises and educates students.

Alternative Roles May Include

- Mental health assessments of children aged 0-11 yrs and the provision of treatment to these children and their families.
- Crisis mental health assessments of children aged 0-11 years presenting with significant emotional or behavioural disturbance.
- Access/Intake
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Community development /liaison
- School based program
- Autism assessment team

Key Responsibilities

- Lead specialist clinical assessment and treatment of infants, children (0–11), and women in the perinatal period, delivering family‑inclusive, developmentally appropriate, evidence‑based care.
- Undertake complex risk assessment and clinical decision‑making, ensuring safety of children while coordinating care from intake through to discharge.
- Drive integrated, multidisciplinary care and stakeholder engagement, including consultation, education and collaboration with families, health services, schools, and community providers.

What We Are Looking For





- Advanced clinical expertise in infant and child mental health and perinatal psychiatry, with strong capability in assessment, treatment and therapeutic interventions.
- Highly developed clinical judgement and risk management skills, particularly in complex and high‑pressure environments involving vulnerable children and families.
- Collaborative, emotionally intelligent communicator with proven ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and build strong relationships across services.

Barwon Health staff benefits

- Excellent working conditions and a strong sense of job satisfaction.
- A vibrant staff wellbeing program and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program.
- Extensive professional development opportunities.
- Attractive salary packaging benefits.
- Living expenses capped at $9,010.
- Meals and entertainment capped at $2,650.

Diversity and Inclusion

Barwon Health is an inclusive and welcoming employer, committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve. We value and celebrate people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities, family structures and identities, and encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities and members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

Child Safety

We are strongly committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. For further information on the Victorian Government’s Child Safe Standards, please see: About Child Secure Standards | Victorian Government ( .

Additional Information

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📌 Mental Health Clinician, Infant and Child Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (Geelong)
🏢 Barwon Health
📍 Geelong