Careers

• Work in an established, highly regarded and Accredited Mental Health Service
• Full-time 
• Tool of trade vehicle, salary packaging, phone, laptop
• Based in Hobart

About the Organisation and Service

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

The Synergy team sits firmly alongside our other youth and family mental health programs across the state as whole service and can proudly report we have a strong reputation in the sector as a highly skilled and effective youth and family mental health service provider, and our service provision is growing rapidly.

We provide a supportive environment, focused on staff wellbeing, with high team morale.  We are heavily focused on investing in best practice service delivery and invest significantly in ongoing professional development, as well as regular secondary case consultation with telepsychiatry.  The team is also located with other LWB services, such as youth and family support services, foster care, and disability services, where shared collaboration is encouraged.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

Life Without Barriers' Youth and Family Mental Health Services are accredited under the National Mental Health Standards, and we are seeking an enthusiastic, engaging and experienced Mental Health Clinician (Allied Health Professional) to join the Synergy youth and family mental health team. Clinicians work intensively 1-1 with young people and their families to assist them in making significant improvements in their mental health, well-being, and functioning, and to walk alongside them as they achieve their goals.

As part of a highly skilled, supportive wrap-around outreach mental health team, you will draw on a solid practitioner knowledge base (2-5 years post-graduate experience in mental health).  You will provide comprehensive assessment and care planning and will deliver therapeutic 1-1 support and clinical case management through outcome-oriented therapeutic modalities.  You will support young people and their families with complex mental health and functional challenges. 

The role is based in Hobart, but you will also have the opportunity to work in the community and on an outreach basis to meet the needs of young people.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive formulations, care plans and risk assessments to inform appropriate intervention.
• Administer, interpret and report on a range of client assessments as appropriate (consistent with professional registrations and client need).
• Provide a range of evidence-based psychological interventions to individuals/groups presenting with multiple needs.
• Monitor and review clients’ progress against the care plan and outcome measures.
• Engage in case discussion and review with partner organisations and care team, demonstrating client outcomes. 
• Through intervention and clinical case management, and through linkage to support services, support clients to maintain or re-engage in education and/or employment, social, and recreational networks, self-management, independent living, and increase individual and community-based relationships
• Work collaboratively with the client and the care team to plan for and develop the skills to exit or transition from the service, including referral to other services where appropriate.

Key Experience

• A tertiary degree in a relevant Allied Health profession, such as Psychology or Social Work, with at least 2-5 years post-graduate clinical experience in mental health.
• Demonstrated experience delivering therapeutic support to young people aged 12-25 years and their families.
• Demonstrated capacity to work both as part of a multi-disciplinary team and autonomously in the community with multiple clients. 
• Highly developed analytical skills and demonstrated experience in carrying out clinical assessments, developing care plans and psychological interventions with young people and families using a range of evidence-based psychological interventions.
• The ability to work collaboratively with agencies that support people with complex and challenging needs, such as mental health services, GPs, Psychiatrists, or other statutory or community-based services.
• Demonstrated experience operating within both internal and external Clinical Governance frameworks
• Current full registration or eligibility for registration/membership with the relevant professional body/organisation.
• A genuine enthusiasm to work in youth-friendly ways to provide clinical case management and a range of evidence-based psychological interventions to deliver positive results.
• Willing and eager to provide clinical interventions and case management support in an engaging, flexible and client-focused recovery approach, and in a range of settings, including outreach in rural areas and/or via e-health platforms.

Benefits of Working with the Synergy Team

• Working in an established, highly regarded and Accredited Mental Health Service
• Opportunity to work in a supportive and flexible team environment with a focus on wellbeing.
• Weekly individual supervision with a Senior Clinician and regular opportunities for group supervision and professional development.
• Weekly team consultation and review meetings
• Caseloads reflective of the needs of the client group, required levels of case management and therapeutic supports.
• Administrative supports
• Ongoing, generous professional development. Depending on the skills and experience of the successful applicant, further training in therapeutic modalities or other areas of individual learning.
• Access to regular Secondary Consultation with a Psychiatrist through an agreement with Orygen Youth Health
• Tool of trade vehicle available for business and personal use, salary packaging, phone & laptop provided.
• Regular site-wide meetings.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks, including a National Criminal History Record Check, and hold a Tasmanian Working with Vulnerable People Registration.

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries, including persons with disability who require adjustments, contact kristina.kubel2@lwb.org.au

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications are continuously reviewed before the closing date; the closing date is therefore subject to change without notice. Current closing date 12^th January 2026.