Job Description:

• Excellent benefits including salary packaging
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Permanent, part time, 0.5 FTE

About the Role
You will be an experienced, skilled and knowledgeable clinician, with a good understanding of the NDIS system. You will have a minimum of 5 years post qualification clinical experience within mental health, in either Social Work, Occupational Therapy, RPN or Psychology.

• Work within the Strengths Model of Recovery orientated practice. Actively uphold a culture of hope by using optimistic language, supporting people and celebrating consumers’ recovery efforts.
• Undertake the assessment, provision of treatment and delivery of targeted interventions to consumers with complex mental health related needs and their family/carers
• Build and maintain effective partnerships between the mental health teams, including the SVMH NDIS Lead, and the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), Local Area Coordinators (LAC’s) and NDIS funded service providers.

Classifications for this position will range from:

• OT/SW Grade 4 HR9 - HR12 or HR25 - HR28 ($107,260 - $122,548 per annum pro rata)
• Psychologist Grade 3 PL1 – PL4 ($108,279 - $123,905 per annum pro rata)
• RPN Grade 4 NP75 - NP77 ($121,274 - $130,603 per annum pro rata)

Your Contribution

• A minimum of 5 years post qualification clinical experience within Mental Health in either SW, OT, Psychology and RPN. 
• Registration with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (all disciplines except Social Work).
• Experience in working within or closely with the NDIS sector.
• Ability to develop care plans that are creative and flexible, place the consumer at the centre of their care, and which draw in services from across a range of sectors
• Demonstrated ability to working collaboratively with clients and carers to promote self-determination and enable progress towards reaching personal goals
• A valid Nationally Coordinated Criminal History check, or willing to obtain

 

What We Offer

• A focus on wellbeing initiatives, with regular events and programs

• Confidential, solutions-focused employee counselling

• A healthy work/life balance encouraged.

• Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities

• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!

• Discounts always available through our Foundation

• Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals

• Culture of continuous improvement

About Complex Care

The SVMH Complex Care Program provides a specialist service for consumers experiencing high levels of complexity, by developing integrated and recovery focused complex care packages in collaboration with the consumer, treating team, services and carers. In conjunction with severe mental illness, these complexities can include recurring homelessness, co-existing substance use issues, cognitive difficulties, challenging or antisocial behaviour or patterns of offending behaviours and associated interaction with the criminal justice system, comorbidities, and high users of services. 


Working at St Vincent’s
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.

Application

• Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities.  Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.

Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM

SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).

Closing Date:

14 August 2026 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [email protected]

View Reconciliation Action Plan

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