Senior Mental Health Clinician (Psychologist Social Worker or OT)

At the Lotus Glen Correctional Centre, you'll work with a highly diverse population to provide inclusive mental health and well-being services that are culturally safe and deliver impactful rehabilitative care.

• 5 weeks annual leave
• Mon–Fri hours with flexible options, such as a 9 day fortnight available
• Location allowance

About the Role:

If you are ready to take your clinical experience and skills to the next level, QCS has opportunities for you. You can enjoy a relaxed tropical lifestyle in a city close to the great barrier reef, with ample outdoor recreation activities within walking distance to a rainforest track or a beach.

As Senior Mental Health Clinicians at the Lotus Glen Correctional Centre, you will be helping shape lives through evidence-based mental health care in a unique, culturally diverse environment.

This Centre, 85 km's from Cairns, accommodates high and low security prisoners and provides remand and reception. As it is people-centered, it aims to build cultural safety in the programs and services the QCS Mental Health Services team provide to support the prisoner population to improve outcomes.

These new roles will deliver high-level clinical services within a multidisciplinary team, focusing on assessment and interventions that promote the mental health and well-being of adults within this Centre.

Why Choose Us?

• New Roles: QCS is expanding its teams statewide to introduce new roles and disciplines, so you can be one of the first to embed this role and make it a success.
• Clinical Expertise: Provide clinical consultations and expertise while being able to operate independently to manage complex cases and situations.
• Professional Growth: Strengthen your current experience working with a broad range of psychological presentations that will expand your clinical knowledge.
• Leadership Opportunity: Your clinical supervision and mentorship will contribute to team performance, capability learning, and retention.
• Supportive Culture: Work with a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, professional team providing mental health services within a dynamic operating environment.
• Service Delivery: Broaden and enhance your team management and leadership capabilities as you assist the Mental Health Team Leader in these areas.

About You:

• Advanced clinical capability, with the confidence to deliver high-quality clinical services in a complex, high-demand environment where adaptability and a thoughtful approach to practice are key.
• Cultural capability and inclusive practice, with a commitment to delivering services responsive to the needs of culturally diverse populations.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to build effective relationships across multidisciplinary teams and with stakeholders, provide expert advice, and contribute to professional discussions.
• Provide clinical practice supervision and facilitate the development of critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills.
• Professional accountability and integrity, with a thorough understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities in psychological practice.
• Assist the Mental Health Team Leader to maintain a high performing, service focused team and culture through recruitment, task allocation and promoting knowledge sharing.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology or Occupational Therapy with relevant registration with AHPRA, or tertiary qualifications in Social Work with membership to AASW highly desirable.
• Minimum two years' post-graduate experience in mental health (desirable).
• C Class Driver's Licence.

Applications to remain current for 12 months. Suitable applicants from this process may also be considered for a suitability pool for subsequent identical or similar vacancies that occur within 12 months of the closing date of this advertisement which may include vacancies within other centres.

Job Ad Reference:  QLD/690523/26

Closing Date: Sunday, 20th September 2026