Transform Lives in Mental Health - Senior Clinician -Psychology | Part-Time Ongoing | SA Health

Join SA Health's Specialist Emergency Department Service Community team as a Senior Mental Health Clinician, where you'll provide expert assessment and intervention for individuals experiencing mental health crises in Adelaide's southern metropolitan region. This part-time ongoing position offers the perfect opportunity to make a meaningful impact whilst maintaining excellent work-life balance within South Australia's largest healthcare network. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative, patient-centred care that transforms lives and strengthens our community's mental health outcomes.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Team Manager, this role is responsible for providing care to clients across South Australia suffering from eating disorders including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Other Specified Feeding or eating disorders. The SEDS provides care through consultation liaison; evidence-based care and integrated research. Components of the SEDS include a Consultation Liaison Service, a Day Program and an inpatient program. Employees have access to a comprehensive suite of training and supervision.

Duties for the role will include:

• Undertaking a clinical case load and providing individual support to clients with a diagnosed eating disorder,
• Undertaking assessments and planning recovery focussed services for individual clients, including bio-psycho-social assessment and mental state examination, including risk assessment of all clients referred to the service,
• Offering specialist, evidence based, group or individual programs according to own knowledge base and individual skill, as determined by service/team requirements,
• Providing consultation and assistance to Community Mental health Teams and CAMHS to meet the mental health care needs of the client group,
• Coordinating, participating in, initiating and implementing programs, methodologies, projects and assignments as negotiated with the team and other appropriate senior staff,
• Providing clinical leadership to the team to incorporate recovery focussed psychosocial and contemporary approaches / models into practice,
• Supporting the Team Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist to develop and implement workflow processes, quality assurance processes and ensure optimal work outcomes

About you:

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification recognised by the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) and general registration with the PsyBA with an endorsed area of practice in Clinical Psychology, Hold approved supervisor status with the PsyBA at all levels of supervision.
• Advanced skills in undertaking a comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment, including mental state and risk assessments of clients presenting with high or complex needs,
• Advanced skills in individualised care planning and coordinating comprehensive service provision and crisis intervention with people who have high or complex needs,
• High level of competence in the provision of a range of discipline specific assessments, evidence-based therapeutic interventions and skills including individual and group work,
• Skills in psychosocial rehabilitation practices and recovery practices,
• At least 3 years post registration experience in mental health,
• Experience in a senior clinical role within a mental health setting
• Experience in delivering evidenced based treatment for those experiencing an eating disorder.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Andrew McGregor, Team Manager, (08) 7117 8800, Andrew.McGregor2@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 7 September 2025

Attachments:

• AHP3 Senior Clinician SEDS Community- Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 912709