Position Details

- Part-Time (0.8); would consider Full time Permanent
- Health Professional or Registered Nurse Level 2 $95,432 to $127,176 + Super. May be negotiable depending on Grade and experience
- Would consider newly qualified
- Salary packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, saving thousands in tax each year
- Location: Alice Springs, 0870
- Incentive - Sign-on bonus available

About the service

The Alice Springs Medicare Mental Health Centre gives the local community a genuine alternative to the emergency department. It's a free, walk-in service offering immediate, short and medium-term support to adults experiencing mental health crisis —open extended hours, no referral, no cost.

The Centre is delivered by a national community mental health provider in partnership with a leading Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation, and practice is grounded in cultural safety, trauma-informed care and recovery-oriented principles. Clinical and lived experience staff work side by side in a high-engagement, multidisciplinary crisis model.

About the role

As Mental Health Clinician you'll be the clinical anchor for guests presenting to the Centre completing brief and comprehensive assessments, developing collaborative care plans, and delivering evidence-based therapeutic support over a 3-6 month window.

You'll work closely with lived experience staff, the guest's treatment team, family and carers, and external partners including first responders, community mental health teams and emergency departments.



Reporting to the Clinical Service Manager and Clinical Lead, you'll have real professional autonomy alongside strong clinical governance and supervision.

Day to day you will:

- Engage guests using a strengths-based approach and build trusting, professional relationships
- Complete intake, brief and detailed clinical assessments and co-create care and safety plans
- Deliver short to medium-term evidence-based clinical intervention, plus exit planning
- Provide outreach support where appropriate, maintaining safety
- Work with interpreters and deliver culturally responsive support to guests from diverse backgrounds
- Contribute to service data collection, quality improvement and service development
- Support students on placement and share discipline knowledge across the team

Essential:

- Tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or Nursing
- Current AHPRA registration, or eligibility for AASW membership (Social Work)
- Proven clinical experience in mental health service delivery
- Demonstrated application of recovery-oriented approaches in a clinical setting
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team
- Report writing skills, including preparing recommendations
- Experience across Commonwealth and/or state-funded mental health programs
- Ability to build partnerships with government, non-government, emergency and community services
- Current Working with Children Check and National Police Check (NT Ochre Card confirmation)

Desirable:

- Knowledge of local services relevant to Central Australia
- Experience working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Please APPLY HERE or email ••••@aligned-healthcare.com.au

📌 Mental Health Clinician (Alice Springs)
🏢 aligned healthcare
📍 Alice Springs