Reference Number: 5646
Category: Mental Health
Department: Child & Youth MHS
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Fantastic Opportunity to Join the Adolescent Intensive Management Team at Austin Health Mental Health Senior Clinician- Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) Team, Austin Health ICYMHS
Open to:
Grade 3 Clinical Psychologists
Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses
Grade 4 Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists
Full time (40 hours per week with ADO every 4 weeks)
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) team
The AIM team at Austin Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS) is a multi-disciplinary team that provides an intensive outreach service to vulnerable and at-risk 12–25-year-old adolescents who live in complex family and systemic circumstances. Young people supported by AIM require enhanced treatment and a flexible approach. Typically, the young people seen by AIM are not able to attend office-based assessment or treatment and have a number of other care systems involved.
The systemic framework of the service means that team members work to empower young people and their support networks to think about their difficulties in a creative way and identify flexible solutions to mental health problems. The AIM team also work collaboratively with their colleagues from the Youth Brief Intervention Service, who provide systemic and family-oriented brief interventions to young people and their families.
About the role
As a Senior Mental Health Clinician, you will primarily provide an intensive outreach mental health service to high-risk young people, as well as their families and wider service systems within the Austin ICYMHS catchment. You'll work collaboratively with AIM clinicians and broader ICYMHS staff and teams, to support young people who find it difficult to engage in office-based services and are at risk of harm.
A regular day will see you:
Deliver high-quality care for a small clinical caseload, as well as consultation and liaison with organisations
Provide direct service in the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of young people and families utilising individual outreach approaches, selected treatment modalities suitable for engaging young people in their recovery, which may include mental health promotion and other professional development/capacity building activities
Complete a high standard of accurate and timely clinical and operational documentation and data entry in a timely and efficient manner, and in accordance with ICYMHS standards of documentation and relevant professional/mental health sector statutory requirements
About you
You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work. You will have strong organisational and time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.
To be successful in this role you will bring with you:
A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing, or speech pathology), with current registration with the relevant professional board, association, or college, as well as registration with APHRA (where necessary)
Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual, outreach, and carer-focused clinical services
Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective
Experience in developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. While this is not an Identified position, we actively welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as a significant proportion of our clients identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We are committed to fostering a culturally safe and inclusive workplace and delivering culturally safe services to the community.
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
We foster a culture that celebrates and respects each and every person
Attractive rates matched to your experience and Accrued Day Off every month for full-time staff
A commitment to assist with career development opportunities
Ongoing clinical support with individualised professional development plans
Employees and their direct family members can receive free professional, confidential counselling through the Austin Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Mindfulness meditation classes are available for employees at all three main hospital sites
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach at
[email protected].
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Friday 10 July 2026
