Job Description
Senior Mental Health Clinician (Psychologist Social Worker or OT)
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Queensland Corrective Services - Mareeba QLD
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At the Lotus Glen Correctional Centre, you'll work with a highly diverse population to provide inclusive mental health and well-being services that are culturally safe and deliver impactful rehabilitative care.
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5 weeks annual leave
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Mon-Fri hours with versatile options, such as a 9 day fortnight available
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About the Role:
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If you are ready to take your clinical experience and skills to the next level, QCS has opportunities for you. You can enjoy a relaxed tropical lifestyle in a city close to the great barrier reef, with ample outdoor recreation activities within walking distance to a rainforest track or a beach.
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As Senior Mental Health Clinicians at the Lotus Glen Correctional Centre, you will be helping shape lives through evidence-based mental health care in a unique, culturally diverse environment.
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This Centre, 85 km's from Cairns, accommodates high and low security prisoners and provides remand and reception. As it is people-centered, it aims to build cultural safety in the programs and services the QCS Mental Health Services team provide to support the prisoner population to improve outcomes.
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These new roles will deliver high-level clinical services within a multidisciplinary team, focusing on assessment and interventions that promote the mental health and well-being of adults within this Centre.
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Why Choose Us?
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New Roles:



QCS is expanding its teams statewide to introduce new roles and disciplines, so you can be one of the first to embed this role and make it a success.
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Clinical Expertise: Provide clinical consultations and expertise while being able to operate independently to manage complex cases and situations.
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Professional Growth: Strengthen your current experience working with a broad range of psychological presentations that will expand your clinical knowledge.
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Leadership Opportunity: Your clinical supervision and mentorship will contribute to team performance, capability learning, and retention.
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Supportive Culture: Work with a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, professional team providing mental health services within a dynamic operating environment.
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Service Delivery: Broaden and enhance your team management and leadership capabilities as you assist the Mental Health Team Leader in these areas.
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About You:
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Advanced clinical capability, with the confidence to deliver high-quality clinical services in a complex, high-demand workplace where adaptability and a thoughtful approach to practice are key.
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Cultural capability and inclusive practice,



with a commitment to delivering services responsive to the needs of culturally diverse populations.
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Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to build effective relationships across multidisciplinary teams and with stakeholders, provide expert advice, and contribute to professional discussions.
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Provide clinical practice supervision and facilitate the development of critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills.
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Professional accountability and integrity, with a thorough understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities in psychological practice.
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Assist the Mental Health Team Leader to maintain a high performing, service focused team and culture through recruitment, task allocation and promoting knowledge sharing.
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Mandatory Requirements:
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Tertiary qualifications in Psychology or Occupational Therapy with relevant registration with AHPRA, or tertiary qualifications in Social Work with membership to AASW highly desirable.
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Minimum two years' post-graduate experience in mental health (desirable).
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C Class Driver's Licence.
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Applications to remain current for 12 months. Suitable applicants from this process may also be considered for a suitability pool for subsequent identical or similar vacancies that occur within 12 months of the closing date of this advertisement which may include vacancies within other centres.
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Job Ad Reference: QLD/*********
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Closing Date: Sunday, 20th September ****
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📌 Senior Mental Health Clinician (Psychologist Social Worker Or Ot) (Queensland)
🏢 Queensland Corrective Services
📍 Queensland