Lead, innovate, and make a real difference in youth mental health. Shape your career while shaping the future for young people.
Step into a role where your expertise, creativity, and leadership truly matter.
Employee Benefits
- Above Award Salary – Level 6 SCHADS Award (based on experience and qualifications).
- 11 Wellbeing Days (to support worker well-being) – in addition to Annual Leave
- Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options of up to $15,899 per FBT year
- Portable Long Service Leave (from eligible organisations)
- Regular Clinical Supervision
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for personal and professional wellbeing
- Additional Public Holiday Day at Easter (Tuesday)
- Excellent Learning & Development opportunities
About the Role
Are you an experienced and innovative mental health professional ready to lead, inspire, and make a tangible difference in young people’s lives? As our Senior Mental Health Clinician you will deliver early intervention, evidence-based psychological support to young people experiencing a wide range of mild to moderate mental health challenges.
In this role, you won’t just manage a caseload you’ll bring creativity, assertiveness, and a youth-focused mindset to help young people seek help early and get the support they need. You’ll provide clinical supervision and guidance to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring safe, culturally responsive, and family-inclusive services that genuinely improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes.
You’ll shape the future of youth mental health by supporting staff development, mentoring students and graduates, and driving continuous improvement through evaluation, feedback, and innovation. Collaborating with external stakeholders and promoting Brophy across the region, you’ll be a key contributor to an integrated, high-performing service that puts young people at the centre of everything we do.
If you’re passionate about early intervention, evidence-based practice, and making a measurable difference in the lives of young people and their families, this is your opportunity to step into a senior clinical role where your expertise truly matters.
Do your skills include:
- Demonstrated experience and advanced skills in delivering mental health interventions in a range of mental health settings to young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health presentations..
- Advanced clinical skills in managing young people at risk, including suicide and violence risks.
- A broad understanding of the mental health service system in the state and national reforms, and knowledge of relevant legislation.
- Proven track record in building and maintaining effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Are your credentials:
- Qualifications in an Allied Health discipline including Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Nursing (Div 1) or Occupational Therapy. Occupational therapists who have full and current professional registration to practice from AHPRA must also have completed additional mental health-specific training or endorsement in mental health. Division 1 Mental Health Nurses who have full and current professional registration must also have completed mental health specific training or have endorsement in mental health.
- Current full registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (APHRA); or membership of eligibility for membership with Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) .
- A current Drivers Licence.
Desirable;
- Current registration as an APHRA approved supervisor for psychology internships is desirable but not essential.
- Current eligibility as an Allied Mental Health Professional to provide Medicare funded psychological therapies.
About Brophy (headspace Lead Agency)
Brophy Family & Youth Services has supported children, young people, families, and the southwest Victorian community for almost 50 years. We live here; this is our community; we believe in people and in their ability to create the life they want.
At Brophy, you will join a team of just over 170 employees delivering over 40 programs and services across areas, including youth engagement, mental health, family violence, foster care, housing support, employment support, and disability services.
At Brophy our Vision is not just focused externally on our community – we feel just as passionate about our employees being meaningfully connected through their roles with us to create the life they want, and that as a workforce, we achieve this together through innovation and healthy relationships, and by positively contributing to building an advantaged community.
Brophy’s headspace services are growing across the region – from our Warrnambool services, now in operation for almost 15 years; we also provide a satellite service in Portland, we are proud to now offer headspace services in Hamilton.
Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy:
Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities. Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.
For more information please contact Atif Saeed, Clinical Lead on 03 5561 8888.
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
We’re excited to hear from interested candidates and will be reviewing applications as they arrive. To give yourself the best opportunity, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as suitable applicants may be invited to interview or offered the role during the recruitment process
Please note that we are only able to consider candidates who have the right to work in Australia, and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
