Mental Health Clinicians x2 – Hurstville

We support individuals living with mental health challenges to achieve outcomes they value.

Position details

• x2 Part Time Permanent positions (0.6 FTE) 3 days per week
• Health Professional Support Services Level 2 or Nurses Award Level 2 with a salary range of: $88,406 – $98,899 per annum pro rata + Superannuation.
• Salary packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year.
• Location: Hurstville, NSW.

About Neami National

“We’re big believers in everyone having the opportunity to live a full life – and we give our all to support people to achieve wellbeing and mental health outcomes that matter to them.

For some people, this means having a stronger sense of self. For others, it may mean nurturing relationships or building the confidence to tackle tomorrow. Everyone has different life goals, and at Neami, we walk alongside people to help improve their quality of life on their terms.

We’re proud to support 38,000 people living with mental health challenges across Australia and offer more than 70 services, over 45 different Indigenous lands. These services include mental health and wellbeing, housing and homelessness, and suicide prevention.”

About your new role

The Allied Health professional roles will operate from within The Way Back Service (TWBS)

The Way Back is a Suicide After Care Service designed to provide support to people who have recently experienced a suicidal crisis or attempted suicide. TWBSS provides strength-based support that empowers participants to connect to with clinical and community-based services to meet individual needs to build resilience and create a sustained reduction in risk of suicide.

The Way Back psychosocial support is complimentary to, and integrated, with the provision of clinical support, with both working collaboratively and consultatively to achieve positive participant outcomes.

As an Allied Health Professional, you will draw on your discipline skills engage with participants, other clinicians, the participant’s treatment team, lived experience peer workers, Neami staff and family/friends/carers to provide high quality evidence-based interventions to facilitate goal focused support to improve overall wellbeing and safety to service participants. Interventions will be flexible and tailored to meet individual need, with a focus on building capacity to self-manage distress.

What will Neami offer in return?

• Generous additional leave entitlements including 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave, 6 weeks Paid Partner Leave, 2 days Wellness Leave, 2 days additional Carer’s Leave and 3 days Compassionate Leave per occasion.
• Access to paid study leave and discipline-specific paid external supervision.
• Professional development through regular practice development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.
• Ongoing extensive in-house Learning and Development programs to encourage learning and skill-building.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through TELUS – providing holistic health and wellness supports and resources to Neami staff and their immediate family.
• Flexible work arrangements are available for maintaining your work-life balance.

What you will bring to the role

• As a Mental Health Clinician, you will have registration with the relevant accreditation body in your field. It is a responsibility of the incumbent to maintain all registrations requirements with the appropriate registration authority and continuing professional development.
• Social Worker, Nurse, or Occupational Therapist – General or Clinical Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Experience in providing therapeutic intervention to people presenting in distress, and;
• Experience and understanding of working with people with a mental health condition, suicidality and/or deliberate self-harm.
• Skilled and experienced in delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions, such as CBT DBT and motivational interviewing.
• Ability to work well autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team
• Participate in case presentations.

What the role requires

• National Criminal History Check (police check) – disclosable outcomes considered.
• Current Working with Children Check – required before commencement of work.
• Current Australian drivers’ licence and access to a car
• Australian working rights

How to Apply

The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the attached position description (please select the paperclip icon). If you have any further questions not addressed in the job advertisement or position description, please contact:

Ingrid Stefan, Service Manager – [email protected] using the subject line: Mental Health Clinicians x2 – Hurstville enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Be Yourself – Neami values and celebrates diversity including multidisciplinary teams and the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that is accessible, inclusive and reflects the community in which we live.