Job Summary
- Minimum $102,723.08 (pro-rata). Salary negotiable.
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 1st May 2024
- Regional VIC > Warrnambool
Join headspace Warrnambool and Portland teams of experienced health professionals who are passionate about improving the mental health and well-being of young people, their families, and friends in our community.
In joining our team, you’ll find we also care about you – providing everything from a culture that encourages a balance of home life and work to well-being days off.
If you have the relevant qualifications and experience our Senior Clinical Services Manager would love to speak to you - For more information on this role contact Julia Winstanley at [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Youth Mental Health Clinician - headspace Warrnambool & Portland enquiry via EthicalJobs or 03 5561 8888.
Our Senior Youth Mental Health Clinician will be an experienced and innovative professional with considerable knowledge in delivering a range of youth mental health services including early intervention, focused psychological therapies and services for young people experiencing more complex mental health difficulties.
In this role, you will be responsible for engagement, assessment, care planning and delivery to a caseload of young people including those accessing services under the Youth Enhanced Service (YES), as well as assisting the Senior Clinical Services Manager in the effective coordination of the YES program, providing mentoring, guidance and secondary consult to the YES Navigators to ensure effective, evidence-based services are provided to young people and their Family & Friends.
A key focus of the role is ensuring the program model and service plan deliver flexible approaches including home-based care, outreach, streamlined step-up/step-down from public mental health services as required, access to appropriate community supports, as well as continuing care management and psychological interventions. Additionally, this role will support clinical decision-making around assessment, treatment, and effective and efficient service delivery to ensure that mental health service provision is youth-friendly, culturally appropriate and family-inclusive.
The Senior Youth Mental Health Clinician will provide also quality support and clinical supervision, including secondary consultations to a multidisciplinary team which includes students and graduates, to support the provision of safe, evidence-based best practice.
This initial contract for this position is 6 months with the view to extend, ranging from 0.8 to 1.0 EFT.
A full list of key duties is outlined in the Position Description.
Essential:
(Please provide evidence of credentialing along with your Cover Letter and Resume as part of your application)
Desirable
Brophy Family & Youth Services has supported children, young people, families, and the southwest Victorian community for almost 50 years. We live here; this is our community; we believe in people and in their ability to create the life they want.
At Brophy, you will join a team of just over 200 employees delivering over 40 programs and services across areas including youth engagement, mental health, family violence, foster care, housing support, employment support, and disability services.
At Brophy our Vision is not just focused externally on our community – we feel just as passionate about our employees being meaningfully connected through their roles with us to create the life they want, and that as a workforce we achieve this together through innovation and healthy relationships, and by positively contributing to building an advantaged community.
Brophy’s headspace services are growing across the region – from our Warrnambool services now in operation for almost 15 years; we also provide a satellite service in Portland and are now working to establish a new headspace centre in Hamilton.
Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities.
Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.
For a copy of the Position Description or further information on this role visit - https://brophy.org.au/work-with-us/positions-vacant/
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