Senior Mental Health Clinician

The Hospital:

The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards. 

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

Senior Mental Health Clinician, Brimbank Melton Children’s Local

• Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging
• Based in Sunshine
• Friendly and supportive team environment

About the Role
This is a part-time (0.6) fixed term position for a Senior Mental Health Clinician to work alongside a Team Coordinator and Grade 2 clinicians in the Brimbank Melton Children's Local.
You will be responsible for assisting the Team Coordinator with service development and supporting a multi-disciplinary team to provide excellence care to infants and children aged 0-11 years.
You will provide leadership through modelling a high standard of professional and interpersonal skills, attitudes and behaviours.

What you’ll achieve:

• Purposeful and specialist engagement with infants and children and their families in high quality recovery-focused care through assessment and intervention.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to maximise service coordination and collaboration.
• High quality clinical supervision to other mental health clinicians and student

Your skills and experience

• Tertiary Qualification or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Significant clinical experience in a tertiary mental health setting, preferably working with infants and children aged 0 -11 years and their families
• Experience in providing quality clinical/professional supervision to staff and students.

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

About the Department

Led by IPC Health, the Brimbank Melton Children’s Local is an integrated health partnership that supports infants and children aged 0-11 who are experiencing emotional, social and/or behavioural issues. With RCH Mental Health Service delivering the mental health component, there is full integration between secondary care and tertiary services in Brimbank Melton.

What we offer:

• Employee Assistance Program
• Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
• Culture of continuous improvement

Other requirements:

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
• Valid Working with Children Check
• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain 
• Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

Application process

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately, we encourage you to apply promptly!

or 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.

For more information about this position please contact Gareth Simpson, Team Coordinator, Email: gareth.simpson@rch.org.au.

Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital.  Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption, and offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks. 

Are you ready to join our team? 

 Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button

Applications close 2 March 2026