Mental Health Clinician

The Coffs Harbour Medicare Mental Health Centre offers inclusive, low-stigma access points for mental health services, providing assessment, triage, warm referrals, and immediate support. It caters to individuals at various levels of need, including those in crisis, fostering an innovative, agile, and flexible approach to service delivery.

The Opportunity:

Our new Medicare Mental Health Centre in Coffs Harbour is looking for a Mental Health Clinicians to join the team as a part-time, permanent. As a crucial part of this emerging team, you'll be tasked with delivering high quality, evidence-driven psychological interventions tailored to individuals' mental health needs and goals by using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) and other models within your practice. Beyond individual sessions, you'll actively participate in team discussions, foster connections with external partners, and engage with the community to deliver comprehensive, recovery-oriented care.

This is a part-time opportunity located in Coffs Harbour. (approximately 4 days a week)

Benefits to you:

Besides shaping an innovative mental health service with dedicated staff and supportive leaders fostering a strong team culture, you'll enjoy competitive pay and a work environment that prioritises professional growth, skill-building, and staff well-being.

Additional benefits include:

• Joining a new positive, inclusive, values-focussed team.
• Maximise your take-home pay with up to $15,900 tax-free and $2,650 for meals and entertainment, plus novated leasing options through NFP salary packaging
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
• Access to exclusive employee discounts on shopping, dining, travel and more
• Access to appropriate and supportive clinical supervision.
• Competitive compensation to align with clinical skillset.

On a day-to-day basis you will

• Conduct clinical assessments and develop case formulations and treatment plans for clients with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
• Deliver individualised, evidence-based interventions with clients.
• Perform risk assessments and develop practical risk management plans.
• Provide client-centred care, incorporating family-inclusive practices within a multidisciplinary team.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with confidentiality and ethical standards.

About you:

Are you a professional, innovative, and caring clinician who thrives as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and enjoys working with a wide range of external stakeholders involved in providing health, mental health, and psychosocial services?

We are also looking for:

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, occupational therapy, or other clinical disciplines related to mental health.
• Registration with the appropriate professional body such as AHPRA or AASW.
• Expertise in assessing, diagnosing, and providing evidence-based treatments for mental health disorders.
• Extensive experience fostering mental health and well-being, delivering inclusive therapeutic services with a recovery and strengths-based focus.
• Competency or the ability to develop competency in conducting risk assessments, crisis intervention planning, and implementing effective risk management strategies for consumers.
• Knowledge of the mental health system, government policies, legislation, and professional standards.
• A commitment to foster and build inclusive cultures that promote human rights and diversity.

If this sounds like you, this is what you will need to get started:

• Current Driver Licence
• Current Working with Children Check (Blue Card) or ability to hold one
• Undergo a current (within 3 months) and satisfactory Police Check

About Open Minds Integrated Mental Health Services

Open Minds has been a leading provider of mental health services to local communities for over 111 years, operating sites across NSW and QLD. Our services include:

• Headspace centres (for individuals aged 12-25)
• Head to Health centres and satellite sites (for adults)
• Medicare Mental Health Centres
• Universal aftercare services
• Psychosocial support programs
• Clinical care and coordination

We are dedicated to collaborating with our health partners, stakeholders, local communities, and families to consistently deliver safe, high-quality, recovery-oriented care.

For queries contact Sharna Flowers on [email protected] or to apply hit ‘Apply now,’

Diversity is Strength. We encourage people from diverse ages, gender, identity, cultural backgrounds, and experience including First nations peoples, Cultural and linguistically diverse, LGBTQIA+, lived/ peer, mental health experience, to apply for this position.

“Open Minds acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations.”