Mental Health Clinician 3 - Safe Haven - SCH
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 13 June 2027
Position Classification: Health Clinician Lvl 3 including classifications of Art Therapist Lvl 3, Clinical Nurse Consultant Gde 1, Clinical Psychologist,
Music Therapist Lvl 3, Occupational Therapist Lvl 3, Play Therapist Lvl 3, Psychologist, Social Worker Lvl 3
Remuneration: 121568 - 125507 full-time equivalent base salary range (+12% super + 17.5% leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ692776
Location: Randwick
Applications Close: Midnight on 20 September 2026
For role related queries or questions contact Jourdan Emily Hancock on JourdanEmily.Hancock@health.nsw.gov.au
At the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, every role helps children and young people live their healthiest lives.
As the largest paediatric health service in Australia, we care for thousands of children each year, in hospital and at home. Our people are united by compassion, collaboration and excellence in care.
What you'll be doing
The SafeHaven Mental Health Clinician is the Senior on shift who provides clinical support and oversight for the Suicide Prevention Peer Workers delivering the service. The Peer Workers provide specialist person centred and compassionate care to young people at risk of suicide and their families and connect young people to support services to address their underlying factors contributing to their distress.
The SafeHaven operates a variety of times and shifts. Shift work, including weekends, and attendance at meetings, supervision and
training is a requirement of the role.
The SafeHaven Mental Health Clinician will ensure co-design with people who have a lived experience of suicidal crisis is central to all aspects of the service and ensuring all activities are unpinned by Recovery Orientated Practices, Trauma Informed Care, Strengths based approaches and person centred care. The role has a particular emphasis on working collaboratively with consumers to access clinical services if required. Other activities may include safety, recovery and wellness planning, individual support, advocacy, collaborative identification of community support, follow up and support to access other services to address situational distress.
The position holder will be responsible for actively promoting the SafeHaven service and enhancing the partnerships and referral pathways with the key stakeholders to address situational distress.
Additional Benefits (where applicable): Flexible work opportunities, Salary packaging and meal entertainment benefits, accrued days off (ADOs), fitness passport, employee assistance program (EAP)
How to Apply:
Click ‘Apply Online’ and submit your application including:
A resume (maximum 5 pages) outlining your experience
Responses to the questions below:
- Tertiary qualifications, professional registration/membership as per essential requirements.
- Post graduate experience in delivery of suicide prevention support services with focus on situational distress, recovery orientated service provision, trauma informed care, safety planning and managing risk.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including providing leadership to Suicide Prevention Workers (peer & clinical) and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.
- Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, including clinical services throughout all organisational levels to enhance pathways and transfer between care settings.
- Ability to provide in-depth advice and education to enhance service delivery and to guide and support others in providing service excellence in suicide prevention, with the capacity to provide clinical supervision to other staff.
- The ability to initiate, lead, complete co-design quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff.
- Demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning.
- Strong computer literacy skills in Microsoft Office and experience with relevant Health related computer programs
Child Safe Standards:
SCHN is committed to maintaining a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, in line with NSW Health’s commitment to the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and well-being of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.
Additional Information:
SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity, recognising that a diverse workforce strengthens our culture and enhances the care we provide to children, young people and their families.
Permanent NSW Health roles require Australian citizenship or permanent residency. Temporary visa holders may be considered where no suitable Australian citizen or permanent resident is identified.
NSW Health vaccination and screening requirements must be met prior to commencement.
This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC) issued by the Office of the Children’s Guardian.
Where required, overseas qualifications must be formally assessed by the Department of Education or relevant authority for recognition in Australia.
An Eligibility List may be created for future temporary full or part time vacancies.
Need more information?
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families. For application support, visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application, or contact the SCHN’s Aboriginal Workforce Consultant at SCHN-EA-AboriginalHealthDirectorate@health.nsw.gov.au
For technical support please contact 1300 679 367
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