- Fantastic Opportunity to Join theCentral Youth CommunityTeamat Austin Health
- Grade 4 SocialWorker

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About CYCT

The Central Youth Community Team (CYCT) is one of several community outpatient teams within the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). It is a multi-disciplinary team that offers individual and group assessment, treatment, consultations, and a clinical case management service to young people with a variety of complex and severe mental illnesses and/or disorders.

CYCT primarily provides services to young people aged 12-26in the Central LGAs of the Austin ICYMHS catchment areas, namelyBanyule and Nillumbik. The service currentlyoperateswithin business hours,with a view to expandoperating hours in the future to improve accessibility in line with Royal Commission recommendations.

About the role

The Social Work Senior Mental Health Clinician will work within the Central Youth Community Team, under the direction of the Program Manager and Team Leader, withadditionalsupport from theCYCTConsultant Psychiatrist.

As aseniormental health clinician, it is expected that you will work collaboratively within the team and broader ICYMHS teams to support young people who present with mental health concerns as well as to provide support to, their families, carers, and communities. The incumbent will contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of enhancements to the model of care for youth ensuring practice is in line with contemporary evidenced based mental health models of careoutlined in the Royal Commissionand current Victorian initiatives including the Recovery Framework.





The Senior Social Work component of the role also holds senior responsibilities around supportingmultidisciplinarystaff indiscipline specificpracticeareas such as Family Violence, Vulnerable Children and Families, Carers, Family Work; wider networking and systemswork;andsupportSocialWorkersaround supervision,studentsand New Graduates.

About you

You will be someone with excellent communication,interpersonaland collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work.You'llhave strongorganisationaland time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.

To be successful in this role you will bring with you:

- A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatricnursingor speech pathology), with current registration with the relevant professional board,associationor college, as well as registration with APHRA (where necessary)
- Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual,outreachand carer-focused clinical services
- Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective
- Experience in developingindividualisedservice plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are strongly encouraged to apply.While this is not an Identified position,



we actively welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, asa significant proportionof our clients identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We are committed to fostering a culturally safe and inclusive workplace and delivering culturally secure services to the community.

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards.If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach at ***************@austin.org.au.

Application closing date: Wednesday 12 August 2026

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📌 Senior Mental Health Clinician- Social Worker (Melbourne)
🏢 Austin Health
📍 Melbourne