Senior Clinician - PARCS

PARCS Senior Clinician

Senior Clinician | Permanent Full Time

Join Gippsland's largest provider of mental health services, with a strong focus on innovation, recovery, and person-centred care, you'll be part of a team creating real impact every day.

Located in the beautiful Gippsland region, Latrobe Regional Health offers an exceptional lifestyle with easy access to Melbourne, beaches, mountains and lakes. We are committed to delivering compassionate, evidence-based care across our Mental Health Services, including inpatient care at our Traralgon hospital and Community Mental Health Services across Traralgon, Sale, Bairnsdale, Yarram, Orbost, Warragul and Wonthaggi.

About the role

Latrobe Regional Health is seeking a Senior Clinician to Join our PARCS Team on a Full-Time ongoing basis.

We are seeking an experienced and recovery-focused PARCS Senior Clinician to lead the clinical delivery of the Prevention and Recovery Care Service (PARCS). Working in partnership with Wellways and multidisciplinary stakeholders, you will provide specialist clinical leadership, evidence-based treatment, and recovery-oriented interventions that support consumers experiencing mental health challenges. This role plays a pivotal part in promoting rehabilitation, relapse prevention, self-management, and seamless transitions between acute, community, and recovery services while supporting ongoing service innovation and excellence in mental health care.

Working Together | We will respond to challenges together to create a safe, quality health service

The role of the Senior Clinician is to:

• Provide clinical leadership for PARCS, ensuring the delivery of recovery-oriented, evidence-based care that supports consumers in achieving their recovery goals and maintaining community participation.
• Lead the implementation of the Optimal Health Program and promote best-practice service delivery models that enhance consumer outcomes and support relapse prevention.
• Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and support to multidisciplinary staff, fostering a culture of reflective practice, professional development, and clinical excellence.
• Coordinate clinical review processes, support quality improvement initiatives, and ensure compliance with relevant legislation, standards, governance requirements, and organisational policies.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with consumers, carers, community agencies, healthcare providers, and Wellways to support integrated and coordinated care across the mental health service system.
• Monitor service performance, workforce requirements, documentation standards, and key performance indicators while contributing to service planning, innovation, and continuous improvement activities.

About you

Ideal candidates for this role will have:

• Qualified Mental Health professional with registration and/or eligibility in Nursing, Social Work, Psychology, or Occupational Therapy, along with a current Victorian Driver's Licence.
• Demonstrated senior leadership experience within mental health services, including the ability to lead, motivate, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022, National Mental Health Standards, clinical governance requirements, and recovery-oriented practice.
• Highly developed communication, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively within complex service environments.
• Extensive knowledge of community mental health, primary care services, rehabilitation, recovery models, and integrated treatment approaches.
• Committed to ongoing professional development, service innovation, consumer-centred care, and continuous quality improvement.

Latrobe Regional Health offers a range of benefits including:

• Salary packaging up to $9,000 per annum.
• Meals/Entertainment benefit up to $2,650 per annum.
• Encouragement for professional development and ongoing education.
• A range of social club activities, discounts and diverse workplace activities.
• Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering health education and wellbeing
• Access to discounted gym membership and fitness services through Fitness Passport Services.

Diversity and inclusion

We embrace workforce diversity and actively encourage applications from across our community including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with linguistically diverse backgrounds, people of all genders and gender identities and people with disabilities. LRH's Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted via email: AboriginalHealthUnit@lrh.com.au 

How to apply

Please click the APPLY button to be directed to our Careers page for direct application. Applications should include a cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria and current resume.

Applications Close: 16th November 2026

Interested about this exciting opportunity, but want more information? We encourage you to contact Anna Baranova, GM Acute and Bed Based Mental Health via email: Anna.Baranova@lrh.com.au for a confidential discussion.

Please click here for a copy of the Position Description

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Before commencement, the successful applicant will

Provide evidence of an original and valid National Police Record Check, an employee Working with Children Check, and a current season influenza vaccine (if applicable to work area), unless a valid medical exemption applies.