Are you a Mental Health Clinician with a passion for creative, flexible and adaptive practice who is interested in growing your skills and experience in supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members?

Yulu-Burri-Ba Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health (Yulu-Burri-Ba) provides safe, friendly, confidential, and culturally appropriate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary and Social Wellbeing Health programs in line with community needs.

Yulu-Burri-Ba’s vision is to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and community to achieve excellence in their healthcare outcomes. Yulu-Burri-Ba has clinics at Capalaba, Dunwich (North Stradbroke Island) and Wynnum.

This is an exciting time to join the team as the building work for our dedicated Social Health space at Yulu-Burri-Ba’s Capalaba clinic is underway. This will mean shared workspaces and dedicated therapeutic spaces for individual and family work.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.

About the Role

Mental Health Clinicians provide culturally appropriate clinical care and support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across their lifespan, drawing on an ecological practice framework that prioritises family-centred care.

Join a well-established, stable team where collaboration and long-term growth is valued. Members of the Social Health team are comprised of Care Coordinators (Youth), Case Managers, Counsellors and Psychologists and have:

• The opportunity to practice a range of assessment and therapeutic approaches within an overarching strengths-based, trauma-informed model of care (including CBT/ACT/Schema, Narrative, EMDR).
• Access to professional development support that enables growth in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledge and appropriate (Propa) practice.

The team is embedded within a Primary Health Care Clinic that provides a comprehensive range of primary and specialist care services. This role works actively with these other disciplines to ensure that the needs of clients are met in a truly holistic way.

About you

Essentials:

• Ability to support community members with complex presentations associated with trauma such as AOD, domestic and family violence and mental wellbeing experiences.
• Ability to travel across Yulu-Burri-Ba clinics (Capalaba, Wynnum and North Stradbroke Island)

What Can Yulu-Burri-Ba Offer?

• Yulu-Burri-Ba operates in a diverse community and welcomes and encourages applications from ages and genders, LGBTIQA+ and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Work variety: facilitation of group psychoeducation and therapies as well as individual therapy.
• ‘Community of Practice’ model including interdisciplinary group supervision led by experienced clinicians.
• Board approved supervision for a Provisional Psychologist (general registration) or for those seeking endorsement in Educational & Developmental Psychology.
• Support clients across the lifespan or focus your practice on the age group that aligns with your expertise and passion.
• Be part of Australia’s largest network of community controlled Aboriginal Health Service.
• Access to in-house training and programs.
• Staff Wellness, EAP program, team building activities and all staff award ceremonies.
• Opportunities to attend community events such as NAIDOC, Rugby League Carnivals and more.
• A range of Salary Sacrifice options including Meal & Entertainment Cards.
• Start your day with a relaxing 25 min ferry commute to our clinic on Stradbroke Island once per fortnight.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.

*Please note: To be considered for and appointed to any position at Yulu-Burri-Ba, you must have:

• Current AHPRA registration with Psychology Board Australia or AASW Accredited Mental Health Social Worker or hold Occupational Therapy Australia Mental Health Endorsement.
• Current “C” Class Driver’s Licence Valid in Queensland.
• Proof of immunisation record (Immunisation History Statement) – or willingness to obtain as a matter of priority.

You will be required to provide evidence of the requirements mentioned above during the recruitment process.

For further information:

Email - [email protected] using the subject line: Mental Health Clinician enquiry via EthicalJobs.