Position Highlights

- A relocation package may be available for an exceptional candidate interested in investing in our region.
- Be part of a brand new multidisciplinary mental health team and build the service from the ground up
- Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience.

Employment Type

- Fixed-term contract through to 30 June 2028.
- Full-time availability is looked on favourably; 0.8 FTE or above is ideal. Strong candidates will be considered who have less.

Practice Information

Based in Goondiwindi, reporting to Practice Principals and Practice Manager. The team will support people in the local community living with severe and complex mental health, psychosocial and behavioural needs, the people who often fall through the gaps because of distance, complexity or fragmented services. The program delivers intensive, recovery-oriented support for people who face barriers to traditional mental health care: geographic isolation, complexity of presentation, service fragmentation, or co-occurring challenges. Based inside an existing medical centre, it brings outreach, multidisciplinary collaboration, care coordination and integrated care together with local health, social and community services, so people who've struggled to access support can actually get it.

This is a shared-care model. Patients come to the team through a coordinated pathway, and your clinical practice is your own: your assessments, your plans, your judgement. But you're never carrying it alone. You'll work closely with patients' GPs and the wider practice team, and with hospitals, primary care, crisis services and other agencies through case conferencing, coordinated response planning, and integrated care for people with co-occurring mental health, physical health, behavioural, housing and social support needs.

Position Description

You’ll manage a complex and varied caseload, delivering discipline-specific care while working collaboratively within a general practice environment. Day to day, that looks like:

Assessment and clinical intervention

- Comprehensive screening, assessment, care planning, therapeutic intervention and care coordination for people with severe and complex mental health and psychosocial presentations.
- Identifying clinical deterioration, risk escalation, safeguarding concerns and urgent support needs,



and escalating or de-escalating care appropriately across stepped-care or acute services.
- Assertive engagement approaches to improve continuity of care and service access, including for patients at elevated risk or vulnerable to disengagement.

Multidisciplinary and collaborative practice

- Participating in multidisciplinary case conferencing, risk management and coordinated response planning.
- Building working relationships with hospitals, primary care, community services, crisis services and external agencies.
- Interagency collaboration is part of the job, not an occasional add-on.

Outreach and clinic hub facilitation

- Community-based appointments and home visits, and facilitating appointments at outreach clinics, so patients who can't attend independently still get equitable access.
- Delivering care in non-traditional environments where that's what continuity of care needs.

Documentation, reporting and supervision

- High-quality progress notes and documentation, including the standard outcome measures (K10 and MHQoL), which feed into the PMHC-MDS as part of the program's funding and reporting obligations.
- Overall program data reporting through RHealth.
- Gathering relevant information for psychiatrist review and multidisciplinary planning, and contributing to quality improvement and service development.
- Ongoing professional supervision in line with your discipline's and the organisation's requirements, and adherence to trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, culturally safe and person-centred practice frameworks.

Position Requirements

- Mental Health Nurse

Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, with mental health qualifications or experience. Credentialed Mental Health Nurse highly regarded.

- Mental Health Social Worker

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW) with the AASW, or eligibility for it. Strength in the whole context around a diagnosis: family, housing, systems.





- Psychologist

General registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. Clinical endorsement welcome but not essential for the right person.

What You’ll Bring

- Demonstrated experience working with severe and complex mental health and psychosocial presentations, advanced clinical skills and independent judgement managing complex caseloads, and experience with risk, service coordination and multi-stakeholder involvement.
- Comfortable working autonomously while managing competing clinical priorities across rural settings, bring high-level communication and stakeholder engagement skills, and be able to rapidly adapt to working within a GP practice alongside the whole-of-practice care team.
- Demonstrated cultural competence, a strong grounding in trauma-informed and recovery-oriented practice, and a current driver's licence with willingness to undertake outreach travel and home visits are all essential.
- While not essential, applications from candidates with postgraduate mental health qualifications, experience working in rural or remote communities, expertise supporting clients with co-occurring complexities, assertive outreach experience, or knowledge of stepped-care models such as the IAR Decision Support Tool will be highly regarded.

About Goondiwindi

Located on the Queensland and New South Wales border, Goondiwindi offers the perfect balance of rural lifestyle and modern conveniences. Known for its welcoming community, excellent schools, quality health and sporting facilities, and strong agricultural industry, the town provides an affordable and family-friendly place to live. Residents enjoy a relaxed pace of life, short commute times, and easy access to Brisbane, Toowoomba, and regional centres, making Goondiwindi an ideal location for professionals seeking both career satisfaction and lifestyle benefits.

For more information on this position, please contact our team via [email protected].

Following successful placement, eligible candidates may be entitled to receive support and financial assistance through Health Workforce Queensland's comprehensive workforce attraction and retention incentives. This position may be eligible for a scholarship or bursary for ongoing career development.

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📌 Mental Health Nurse | Mental Health Social Worker | Psychologist - Goondiwindi QLD (Winton)
🏢 Health Workforce Queensland
📍 Winton