Clinical Psychologist - Youth Mental Health Initiative
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Location: High Street, Penrith
Position Classification: Clinical Psychologist
Remuneration: $57.30 - $69.84 per hour
Hours Per Week: 32
Requisition ID: REQ659693
Applications Close: 29/06/2026
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.
NBMLHD Community Mental Health offers a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centres. Our multidisciplinary health professionals and case managers take a collaborative approach to mental health care by linking with their patients to work together and consult within an environment appropriate to the person's needs.
This is an opportunity to practice at the top of your profession with young people whose needs are complex, highrisk and deeply impactful. As a YMHI Clinical Psychologist, you will deliver advanced, specialist psychological care to young people engaged with headspace services across Penrith and Hawkesbury. This position will work across Headspace Penrith and Headspace Hawkesbury Offices.
Your role will span comprehensive psychological and neuropsychological assessment, diagnostic clarification, risk formulation and care planning, alongside the delivery of evidencebased individual, group and family interventions. You will bring sophisticated formulation skills across neurodevelopmental, cognitive and functional domains, contributing to integrated, traumainformed and youthfocused care within a shortterm intervention model.
As a senior clinician, you will work with a high degree of autonomy while providing clinical leadership, supervision and service development to Headspace and Child and Youth Mental Health staff within a collaborative interdisciplinary team. You will sit alongside clinicians from the Early Psychosis Intervention program and report to the Youth Mental Health Clinical Lead, playing a key role in shaping highquality psychological care across the service.
This is not a routine clinical role, it is demanding, meaningful and influential, offering the chance to make a profound difference in the lives of young people at critical points in their mental health journey. Apply Now
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.
NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards
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What you will bring to the role
- Accredited post-graduate Master's Degree or higher in Clinical Psychology with full registration as a Psychologist with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and endorsement in the area of Clinical Psychology, or eligibility to progress to endorsement.
- Advanced proficiency in Psychological assessment, diagnosis, use of psychometric tools, risk assessment, and case formulation for young people. Competence in delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions (e.g. CBT, DBT, family therapy, trauma-informed therapies) suitable to youth mental health. Ability to adapt modalities to developmental stages, intellectual capacity, cultural background, and clinical presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and within a multidisciplinary team to accomplish clinical goals and improved consumer care and outcomes. Ability to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.
- Ability to provide clinical consultation, supervision and mentoring to other staff and agencies. Participate/ lead peer supervision and collegial case review. Experience providing clinical supervision to less experienced Psychologists, provisional Psychologists, Psychology trainees and other staff.
- Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage sensitively and effectively with young people and their families/carers from diverse backgrounds; demonstrated ability to provide clear, timely documentation and reports consistent with NSW Health, legal and professional (APHRA Board of Psychology) standards
- Lead or contribute to service development, evaluation, or research projects relevant to youth mental health. Skills in audit, quality improvement, outcome measurement. Willingness to contribute to development of clinical protocols, policy, guidelines, and in-service education and training.
- Extensive contemporary experience and knowledge of psychological practice, as well as demonstrated understanding of the principles of trauma informed care and its application when working with adolescent and youth mental health and their families/ carers/ support systems.
- Current driver's license and willingness to use for work purposes
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
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For role related queries or questions contact Aislynn Weaver on [email protected]
