Support infants and families in Toowoomba by delivering specialist mental health care that shapes healthier beginnings. Join a compassionate, collaborative team where your expertise as an OT, Psychologist, Social Worker, Speech Pathologist or Clinical Nurse Consultant creates meaningful change for our youngest community members.
What Your Day Could Look Like
Providing expert assessment, therapeutic support and collaborative care, you'll help strengthen the wellbeing of infants and their families. Working with a multidisciplinary team, you'll guide families through complex challenges and contribute to outcomes that matter.
Every Day, You'll Contribute By
Delivering high‑level clinical interventions to support healthy early development and strengthen infant–caregiver relationshipsPartnering with families, carers and community providers to coordinate holistic, trauma‑informed careLeading improvements in service quality, clinical practices and integrated models of careSharing insight, coaching others and guiding evidence‑based approaches to elevate team capability and innovation
Let's talk about you!
You bring a blend of heart, curiosity and professional confidence to your work. You can hold complexity with compassion, think clearly under pressure, and build trust with families and colleagues. You take pride in shaping safe, nurturing environments for infants at risk, and see every interaction as an opportunity to make a lasting difference.
Here's What Will Help You Thrive In This Role
Relevant tertiary qualification, current registration or membership in your professionExperience providing clinical mental health assessment and intervention for infants, young children and familiesAbility to collaborate across disciplines, communicate with clarity and work autonomously when neededCommitment to trauma‑informed, evidence‑based practice and continuous professional growth
You'll stand out from the crowd if you have experience in specialist infant mental health, advanced training in parent‑infant therapeutic models or leadership in rural or community mental health settings.
You'll embody compassion, integrity, dignity, innovation and courage- values that shape every interaction and help us deliver care that changes lives.
In this role, your expertise becomes a catalyst for healthier futures, stronger families and a community built on dignity and connection.
Why Join Darling Downs Health?
At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.
Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.
Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.
Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:
Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlementsEnjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and varietyAccess professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathwaysBe part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.
For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits
Your future is here. Where are you?
If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.
Find out more about us!
Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:
www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns
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