Senior Clinician - Restoring Childhood

Berry Street; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Preston is looking for a Senior Clinician to provide therapeutic services for children and young people impacted by family violence. You will manage a case load, supervise clinicians, and ensure high-quality interventions. Applicants need a relevant Bachelor degree and experience in clinical work. This full-time position offers hybrid working, extensive supervisory support, and benefits including additional professional development opportunities. Applications are due by midday on January 19, 2026.

Benefits

Hybrid working from home and the office

Fortnightly supervision

Professional development opportunities

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• You must have experience in clinical work with children.
• Experience in providing clinical supervision to staff is essential.
• Understanding of child protection and family violence service systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage a case load of clients at various stages of care.
• Provide dyadic and child-focused parenting clinical interventions.
• Offer counselling and therapeutic support to adult survivors.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Psychoeducation

Child-focused interventions

Trauma-informed care

Assessment

Education

Bachelor degree or higher in Health or Welfare related field

Job description

Berry Street's Take Two program provides training, consultation and reflective practice to the wider Children and Family Services sector and conducts and disseminates evaluation research on Take Two’s therapeutic services.

Take Two is a flagship site of the Child Trauma Academy implementing the Model of Neurosequential Therapeutics to guide intervention planning.

• Preston Location on Wurundjeri Country
• Full time, Ongoing Position
• Base Salary $116k pa + Super & Salary Packaging

About the Role

The Restoring Childhood Model (RCM) has been funded by the Victorian Government providing therapeutic services to children and young people impacted by family violence. Grounded in evidence informed practice, the RCM will involve specialist intake & triage, supported referrals and secondary consultations and medium term counselling.

We provide trauma-informed therapeutic care for victim survivor families.

Berry Street's Restoring Childhood Program is Rainbow Tick accredited🌈

Learn more about The Take Two Approach: https://youtu.be/Aj1N-I-Vvm0

The Senior Clinician will:

• Carry a case load of clients who are at various stages of the stepped care model, such as assessment, treatment and closure. Therapeutic work can range from short to long term.
• Provide psychoeducation in relation to infant mental health.
• Provide high quality dyadic and child focused parenting clinical interventions to infants, children, and caregivers who have experienced family violence.
• Provide counselling and therapeutic support services to a smaller number of adult victim survivors of Family Violence.
• Provision of supervision of and consultation with Clinicians in the team

Please see the position description for detailed key responsibilities

About You

• You will have a Bachelor degree level or higher qualification in a Health or Welfare related field such as Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, Family Therapy, Speech Pathology or related discipline.
• You will be an experienced Senior Clinician with experience conducting clinical work with children as well as post graduate training in a relevant field.
• You will have a strong understanding of the complexity of child protection and family violence service systems and the issues involved in providing services to our clients.
• You will have experience in providing clinical supervision to clinical staff supporting infants, children and families.

⭐️Berry Street Benefits!⭐️

• Hybrid working from home and the office!
• Committed to providing Fortnightly supervision
• Work within in a multi-disciplinary team who value regular debriefing
• Use of evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions and treatments
• Additional salary packaging available for meals/accommodation.
• Flexible work arrangements and generous leave conditions.
• Additional professional development opportunities.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.

How to Apply

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by midday on Monday 19th of January 2026

Queries to Lauren Vanderzeil, Clinical Team Leader on 03 9487 7768

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.

Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply