Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) is a new, dedicated public youth mental health service and is the first of its kind in Australia. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team.

Senior Family Work Clinician – Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC)

Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS)

Permanent Ongoing | Part-Time 0.6 EFT | 📍 Parkville

Use your expertise to help shape holistic, recovery-oriented care and strengthen family engagement in a safe, youth-friendly environment.

• Join Victoria’s newest Public Mental Health Service dedicated to youth
• Permanent Ongoing, Part-time role | 0.6 EFT | Parkville based
• Salary Packaging | EAP and Wellbeing programs

About Us:

Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) is Victoria’s newest public mental health service dedicated to the care of young people aged 12 to 25 experiencing complex mental health challenges. 

PYMHWS is leading a bold and values-driven transformation in youth mental health care across Melbourne’s north and west. We exist to walk alongside young people, their families, carers, supporters and kin delivering care that is accessible, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, evidence-informed, and grounded in lived experience. Our service model is shaped by the voices of young people and their communities, and underpinned by a commitment to safety, equity, and continuous learning.

At PYMHWS, we are working with our community and partners to build in a future where all young people can access world-class mental health support, close to home. As we grow, we are looking for passionate, skilled, and visionary professionals to join us in shaping a new era of youth mental health in Victoria.  

The Opportunity:

Join Orygen Recovery’s Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC), a 20-bed sub-acute residential program supporting young people aged 16–25. We provide short-term, recovery-focused care for those stepping up to avoid hospital admission or stepping down to transition back to the community.

The Senior Family Work Clinician is a specialist senior role responsible for promoting and implementing family inclusive practice within Orygen’s Youth Prevention & Recovery Care (YPARC).

Our service is made up of compassionate, curious, and committed people. As we continue to grow, we are looking for an experienced, collaborative, and trauma informed Senior Family Clinician to deliver high-quality, evidence-based family interventions, provide clinical leadership, and strengthen the capacity of staff and families to support recovery

Why Join PYMHWS?

• Be part of building a legacy for youth mental health in Victoria
• Work alongside passionate, visionary leaders in a values-led organisation
• Salary packaging options, up to $11,600 tax free earnings
• Employee wellbeing focused, access to EAP
• Flexible, inclusive, and supportive workplace culture
• Opportunities for professional growth and development

About the Role:

As the Senior Family Work Clinician, you will lead and champion family-inclusive practice, offering direct family therapy, counselling, mediation, and psychoeducation, while building the team’s capacity through training and consultation. This family therapy may occur alongside individual therapy or group work or other programs so coordination with other support options is important. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate care, and ensure smooth entry and exit transitions for young people and their families/carers.

Through evidence-based clinical best practice, provide specialist mental health care, physical health assessment, monitoring of treatments, side effects and physical health related to treatments. Also, provide care regarding clinical best practice within the multidisciplinary team regarding family intervention and fostering recovery.

What You'll Do:

• Provide clinical leadership, support, and supervision, primary and secondary consultations to members of the multidisciplinary team, regarding family inclusive practice principles and approaches
• Provide family- focused interventions, including single session family consultations
• Develop and support a framework for family engagement in the Orygen Recovery Program in conjunction with other senior clinicians
• Provide clinical leadership, management, training and supervision to a multidisciplinary team
• Support the delivery of evidence-based interventions across Orygen Recovery, in collaboration with other senior staff
• Work from an inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA backgrounds

About You:

A Mental Health Clinician experienced in developing and delivering group programs for families/carers, including family support groups. Demonstrated experience and ability to determine and plan for a young person’s recovery and support needs, employing a shared-decision making approach.

✔️ Eligible disciplines: RPN Grade 4 / Occupational Therapist, Social Worker and Psychologist Grade 3 AND post-graduate level qualification in Family/Systems Therapy

✔️ Relevant registration and qualifications (see position description for details)

✔️ Minimum 5 years’ experience in tertiary and/or youth mental health and a demonstrated ability to lead a clinical team, supervise mental health clinicians, and function both autonomously and collaboratively with other clinical and organisational leaders

✔️ Excellent communication, organisation, and leadership skills

✔️ Motivated by youth-focused, inclusive, and recovery-oriented care

✔️ Knowledge of and training in family-based approaches to mental health including the Single Session Family Consultation Framework

✔️  Clinical experience and skills in engaging and working collaboratively with young people and families in a mental health setting

Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're looking to be part of something truly meaningful—we’d love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, contact Simone Zammit 03 9966 9228.

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable candidates are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date.

To view the full Position Description, please click HERE

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

PYMHWS stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.