Mental Health Clinician Graduate in Tamworth

Bring your clinical skills, compassion and fresh ideas to a brand-new service. Be one of the founding Clinicians at the Tamworth Medicare Mental Health Centre and help decide how care works here from the start. Be yourself, because together we can make a difference.

What's in it for you?

• Attractive remuneration plus up to $15,900 in NFP salary packaging — more take-home pay, less tax
• Brand-new purpose-built hub in Tamworth
• Full time, with ADO accrual for full-time staff
• Work alongside a genuinely supportive multidisciplinary team, backed by an organisation that invests in your development
• Real variety — crisis support, assessment, therapy, and care coordination, not just one narrow lane

Hunter Primary Care is a not-for-profit committed to improving health outcomes and reducing disadvantage across the communities we serve. In partnership with Grand Pacific Health (GPH), we're building the new Tamworth/Armidale MMHC from the ground up — and we need clinicians who want to help shape it.

What you'll do

This position is full-time, fixed term until 30 June 2029, with the possibility of extension. The Mental Health Clinician Graduate provides person centred, recovery oriented mental health services under appropriate supervision and within their professional scope of practice and registration. The role involves delivering biopsychosocial assessment, care coordination and evidence based interventions in accordance with established clinical frameworks, organisational policies and funding requirements. The clinician works with developing independence within agreed guidelines, participates in clinical supervision, and collaborates with consumers, families, multidisciplinary team members and external service providers to support safe, integrated and effective care outcomes. Clinical decision making is guided by professional standards, service protocols and escalation pathways.

What you'll need

• Current provisional or unrestricted AHPRA registration as a clinical psychologist, registered psychologist, or occupational therapist (accredited with OTA as meeting the Australian Competency Standards for occupational therapists in mental health), or accreditation with the AASW as a mental health social worker (or working toward)
• Demonstrated ability to engage with consumers and their families or carers to undertake assessment to determine care needs and provide care coordination and referral support
• Demonstrated skills and experience in providing holistic, evidence-based therapeutic supports
• Demonstrated interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills and ability work as part of a team as well as independently

Salary packaging up to $15,899 per annum. Ongoing professional development, supervision, and study/professional development leave. Paid parental leave. Paid mental health leave. Employee Assistance Program.

Applications close: 15 November 2026. however shortlisting will commence immediately and we reserve the right to close this vacancy once a suitable candidate is found.

Questions? Contact: Cate Johnston, Business Growth Project Officer on *********@gph.org.au or 0427 428 ***.

We welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the LGBTQI community, multicultural communities, and people with a disability.