Registered Nurse / Social Worker - Community Mental Health Clinician - Adult

Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), Community Mental Health - Deniliquin are looking for a motivated and skilled Older Persons Mental Health Clinician. In this role you will be responsible for delivering holistic, person-centred and trauma-informed care to older people with complex mental health needs. You will be working closely with their families and carers. You will be collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to assess, plan and deliver comprehensive, mental health care to the regional community of Deniliquin and surrounds.

Be part of the vibrant and professional team improving and enriching the health of our communities in millions of ways every day.

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Our benefits:

Family-friendly hours

Mentally stimulating work

Endless opportunities for professional and personal growth

Potential for fast-tracked career progression

Salary Packaging, professional development, health and wellbeing support and relocation support considerations

482 Sponsorship considerations

Relocation support considerations

Employment type: Full time, part time and casual opportunities
Position classification: Dependent on qualifications
Renumeration: $70,944.00 - $113,226.00per annum (+ super +17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Hours per week: up to 38
Requisition ID: REQ603649
Location: Deniliquin

Who we are:
The Deniliquin CMHAOD team is the third largest of six CMHAOD teams across Murrumbidgee LHD. The CMHAOD team has approximately 12 multidisciplinary clinicians and a range of support staff, who provide MH AOD services, across the life span from a site in the main street of Deniliquin.
We work closely with MyStep and other community organisations to ensure people receive the right care for their needs. At a district level we have access to clinical leaders for MH, AOD and other specialty services such as Aboriginal Mental Health, eating disorders and Perinatal Infant Mental Health.

The alcohol and other drugs team work for the greater good through an open, flexible and dynamic, strengths-based approach. We listen to understand, not label.

We are an inclusive and committed team where staff are encouraged to bring their whole self to work and are proud that our team is as diverse as the vibrant communities we support.

What you’ll be doing:
The focus is on adults with acute, complex or high needs and who may be difficult to engage in effective treatment and support.

Identified outcomes are:
Successful therapeutic engagement with adults experiencing, or at risk of deterioration of, a severe mental illness.
Better experience of care through integrated and coordinated service models.
Prevention of unnecessary hospitalisations through timely access to appropriate and targeted clinical care
Active use of a multiagency care plan for adults with, or at risk of, severe and complex mental illness, to help link providers across multiple services involved in their care
Improved support for families and carers of people experiencing severe mental illness

Criteria:

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

Tertiary qualifications in classifications as per listed in the Position Description and Health Professionals Award.

Current Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency or eligibility for membership of the relevant professional association.

More information:
1) Download the position description
2) Find out more about applying for this position.

For role related queries or questions contact Ellen Cross District Clinical Leader Adult & Recovery Community Mental Health CNC, [email protected] or 0400 620 313.

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

Applications close: 10 October 2025

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