- Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay
- Make a real difference in the community

We are seeking a Mental Health Clinician to provide recovery-oriented, trauma-informed support through the UpStart program, helping people experiencing mental illness strengthen community connections and pursue volunteering, study and employment opportunities.

As a not-for-profit organisation, Better Health Network supports people and families at different stages of life and works with communities to strengthen health and wellbeing. We believe that better health and wellbeing is built around community.

- Full time fixed term (Until June 2027)
- Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay
- Make a real difference in the community

About The Role

As a Mental Health Clinician in the UpStart program, you'll provide flexible, person-led support to consumers. Working alongside peer workers and the broader mental health team, you will help consumers develop practical recovery goals and reconnect with community, learning and employment opportunities.

What will I be doing?

- Completing holistic assessments and developing recovery-oriented care plans using strengths-based and lived experience-informed approaches
- Managing a caseload and providing one-to-one, outreach and discipline-specific support to consumers and carers
- Supporting consumers to access community engagement, volunteering, study and employment opportunities
- Collaborating with UpStart Peer Workers, consumers, families and other supports in care meetings, reviews, risk assessment and safety planning




- Managing referral enquiries and referrals, and maintaining comprehensive and timely consumer records
- Contributing to program planning, therapeutic activities, evaluation and promotion to internal and external stakeholders

About You

You’ll be an experienced mental health or community services professional who brings sound judgement, initiative and a genuine commitment to recovery-oriented, consumer-centred practice.

To Be Successful, You’ll Bring

- A professional qualification in lived experience, peer work, welfare, mental health, or an equivalent field
- Experience delivering recovery-focused rehabilitation and individual support to people with psychosocial disability due to mental illness
- Experience working in hospital and/or community mental health settings
- The ability to work autonomously, exercise sound professional judgement and seek consultation or supervision when required
- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills, with the ability to build relationships across multidisciplinary teams, consumers, carers, families and other stakeholders
- A strong understanding of consumer-centred and recovery-oriented frameworks, social determinants of health,



qualified boundaries and the MARAM framework
- A demonstrated commitment to inclusive practice with diverse communities, including LGBTIQA+ and culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- A current Victorian driver's licence

Desirable

- Proficiency in a second language

Why join BHN?

At BHN, you’ll join a values-driven organisation that genuinely cares about its people and the communities it serves. We offer:

- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
- Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay
- Professional development and learning opportunities
- A collaborative and supportive team culture
- The opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day

Location

This role is primarily based at 341 Coventry Street, South Melbourne, with work at additional sites as required.

For enquiries about the role, please contact Maria Garda Ortiz, Team Leader, Mental Health (Wellbeing) ***email_hidden***.

We value Accountability, Collaboration, Respect and Courage, and we strive to create an inclusive environment that welcomes people from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Pre-employment checks include a National Police Check, Working with Children Check, evidence of the right to work in Australia, a General Statutory Declaration and evidence of a current full or probationary driver's licence.

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📌 Upstart Mental Health Clinician (Melbourne)
🏢 Better Health Network
📍 Melbourne