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Title: Senior Clinician - Community Mental Health

Requisition ID: 6966

Location:

Upper Ferntree Gully, VIC, AU, 3156

Job Posting Date: 10 Oct 2026

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Senior Clinician - Community Mental Health (RPN4/SW4/OT4/P3)

- Temporary Full Time | Salary Packaging through Maxxia | Monthly ADO + 5 weeks annual leave
- Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria | Work in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges
- Strong, supportive team culture | Experienced leadership team

Eastern Health

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.

Our Employee Value Proposition is“Being a part of Eastern Health means belonging to a welcoming team of healthcare experts”.

This statement aligns with our promise to our communities, patients, consumers and staff that we will be HEALTHIER TOGETHER. Bolder than a vision for the future, our promise calls us to action. We know that working together is the only way we can achieve what is necessary for a healthier future.

About the role

Chandler House Continuing Care Team is a dynamic multidisciplinary team providing case management for adults with a severe mental illness. We work with consumers, their carers, families and other community agencies to identify and address their needs, coordinate their care and assist in recovery.



We are seeking a Senior Clinician (Nursing/Social Work/Occupational Therapy/Psychology) who would like to join our team to provide a highly responsive and flexible service for our consumers, and support your colleagues to deliver protected, effective interventions. The Senior Clinician plays an essential role on the team; providing for both delivery of a collaborative, recovery-oriented approach to our consumers and role modelling, and supporting best practice to be delivered by your Case Manager colleagues

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced public mental health clinician looking to take the next step in their career. We are seeking a skilled professional to join our team on a temporary basis (until August, 2027), supporting both our consumers and case managers. In this role, you will play an important part in strengthening our team's ability to deliver collaborative, person-centred, and recovery-oriented care to community consumers, while working alongside a highly supportive leadership and multidisciplinary team.

About you

To be successful in this role you will possess:

Experience

- Minimum of five years post qualification experience, including public mental health experience
- Current registration with AHPRA or eligible for AASW membership
- An active clinical supervision arrangement, or willingness to engage in same upon commencement




- Provision of clinical supervision
- Coaching and mentoring of junior staff
- Allocation of clinical staffing resources to maintain a safe working environment, and provide effective clinical intervention
- Leading workplace and clinical incident response and resolution

Skills and abilities

- Clinical and risk assessment skills
- Clinical documentation
- Sound understanding of the role under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
- Commitment to high quality care
- Work as part of a diverse, multidisciplinary team
- Manage an episode of psychiatric treatment from intake to discharge with continuity and to a deadline
- Communicate clinical information in an accurate, timely manner in an ISOBAR format
- Communicate and escalate safety and systemic issues with clinical and operational leaders
- Maintain a daily diary and continuously triage your work to meet clinical and operational demands
- Keep yourself and your colleagues safe, and be reliable under pressure
- Reflect on your practice and implement feedback given
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Post Graduate qualifications in mental health essential for nursing staff as per the Enterprise Agreement

Healthcare workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in the Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice) . Seasonal vaccination against influenza is a mandatory requirement of this role and an offer is conditional on this being up to date prior to employment.

Those that are offered and/or start betwee

📌 Senior Clinician – Community Mental Health Leader (Melbourne)
🏢 Eastern Health
📍 Melbourne