• Permanent Fulltime, Senior Clinician, headspace South Melbourne
• Salary $108,000 - $123,000 + super & salary packaging benefits, & wellbeing support
• Collaborative, highly skilled team with career development opportunities 

About Us

Access Health and Community, with a 150-year legacy of compassionate care, is on a mission to build healthier lives together. Our team of over 400 dedicated employees and 200 volunteers, serve across 18 locations. We are thrilled to announce our upcoming merger with Inspiro, a trusted partner in community health.

Inspiro, with a skilled team of 100, is dedicated to providing accessible, inclusive, and high-quality care in the Yarra Ranges. This merger strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional care and opens up new opportunities for our team and the communities we serve.

The opportunity

Join a supportive and values-based culture with an engaged workforce at headspace South Melbourne, a part of Access Health and Community (AccessHC). We are dedicated to providing mental health, alcohol and other drugs (AOD), and wellbeing services to young people aged 12-25. Our mission is to create an empowering environment where young people feel encouraged to seek help and thrive. You will ensure that young people seeking counselling are linked in with family, community and friendships networks, have pathways to education and workforce participation and have access to a range of support and services in relation to health, housing and developmental needs.

As the Senior Clinician, reporting to the Manager, headspace South Melbourne as well as co-located services, you will ensure young people and their family and friends are welcomed into the service with hope and empathy, using a ‘no wrong door’ approach. You will provide clinical leadership and supervision to a multidisciplinary team of multidisciplinary practitioners to ensure a holistic approach to the young person’s care. The team will undertake mental health assessments, develop goals in collaboration with the young person and work with family/friends and other professionals to coordinate care.

You will be supported by the headspace Manager South Melbourne to ensure that evidence-based clinical practice standards are met and that young people accessing headspace South Melbourne receive high quality services which consider their developmental, clinical, social, family and other needs. Services may be delivered in person or via telehealth and based on site at headspace South Melbourne.

Salary band $108,000- $123,000 + super, with salary packaging benefits.

What you will be doing

Key Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group-based clinical supervision to all clinical staff at headspace South Melbourne. Provide clinical/field supervision and support to placement students to support workforce development
• Support clinical staff to undertake assessment, develop and review care plans, and deliver evidence-informed treatment to young people and families
• Provide clinical support and secondary consultation to staff, in-kind service providers and private practitioners working from headspace South Melbourne
• Assess, monitor and respond to clinical risk, including developing and implementing strengths-based safety plans with young people/families
• Support the headspace team to ensure safe and timely response to enquiries, new referrals and bookings that focusses on welcome, hope and empathy
• Provide clinical leadership to the team and chair relevant clinical meetings, including group supervision and case review meetings
• Support clinicians to engage in person-centred trauma-informed treatment and work from a shared care model (engaging with GPs, health professionals and families)
• Support the headspace Manager South Melbourne to ensure that headspace South Melbourne delivers services that meet quality and accreditation standards (including hMIF-headspace Model Integrity Framework and the National Standards for Mental Health Services) and align with the AccessHC Clinical Governance Framework
• Ensure a ‘no wrong door’ response is provided by headspace South Melbourne staff to all young people and their families and friends presenting for support, including (but not limited to) working in a dual-diagnosis framework and ensuring that young people with mental health, alcohol and other drug and other co-occurring issues feel that all their needs are welcomed by the service
• Ensure that clinical risk is assessed, monitored and managed by all team members in a proactive manner
• Actively participate and work cooperatively within the multidisciplinary team, collaborative partner organisations and with young people, family/friends, referrers and other stakeholders
• Ensure clinical files are maintained to a high standard to facilitate good clinical management and accountability and that other reporting requirements are documented within required timeframes to a high standard

What you will bring

Key Selection Criteria

• Postgraduate qualifications in psychology and current registration with AHPRA as a Psychologist or Clinical Psychologist.
• Demonstrated experience in working with families and young people in mental health/AOD settings for a minimum of 5 years
• Demonstrated high level of skill in clinical risk assessment and management, including assessing for risk of suicide, self-harm and other risk domains
• Recognised qualifications/training and demonstrated experience in the provision of clinical supervision
• Registered with AHPRA as a Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor, or ability to register within first six months of employment
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively and respectfully with people from a diverse range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, including LGBTIQA+, culturally and linguistically diverse, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant software applications

Attributes

• An approach that aligns with trauma-informed care principles of welcome, hope and empathy when working with young people and their family/friends
• Genuine interest and passion working with young people and their family/friends
• Skills in working with young people across the 12–25-year age group and a range of developmental stages
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective time management and prioritisation skills
• Good knowledge and understanding of the youth mental health and related services sector
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Demonstrated behaviours consistent with AccessHC values

Access Health and Community Culture & Benefits

At AccessHC, we offer more than just a fulfilling career; we invest in our people and provide an environment where you can thrive in a culture of collaboration and support. Our team members share commitment and passion to make a positive impact, and this ethos creates a range of benefits for our people from opportunities for personal and professional growth to a sense of purpose and belonging.

Our culture promotes an environment of success and fulfilment. Join us and experience a career where you truly make a difference.

The position encompasses an extensive range of benefits:

• Supportive and values-based culture and engaged workforce
• Culture of trust and empowerment for people to grow and thrive
• Commitment to a work-life balance with flexible working conditions
• Focus on staff wellbeing and health - Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and career growth
• Paid parental leave and opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Annual leave loading
• Generous salary packaging opportunities (up to $15,990 per annum + $2,650 meals/entertainment expenses)

Please click the web link to view our culture and benefits: accesshc.org.au/culture-and-benefits.

Apply Now

If you are excited about this new opportunity, please forward your resume and cover letter responding to the key selection criteria. Please refer to the position description for the key selection criteria information on our career's website: here.

For further information and/or if you would like the opportunity to discuss this role. Please contact Manager, headspace [email protected], using the subject line: Senior Clinician headspace South Melbourne enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.

We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted and may appoint the role before the end of date of the advertisement.

Access Health and Community (AccessHC) is a Child Safe Organisation that values inclusivity and diversity. We encourage applications from people with disabilities, those with lived experience of mental health and/or alcohol and other drugs (AOD) challenges, and those with diverse genders and sexualities.

At AccessHC, our vision for reconciliation is an Australia where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience equitable health and social outcomes. Our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) will contribute to achieving reconciliation. We will seek an understanding of and acknowledge histories and injustices, support the active expression of culture, build strong, trusting relationships, and apply culturally appropriate practices within our work.

We will work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to create a welcoming and safe place for everyone at our services. AccessHC acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present, and future, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

As a vaccine positive organisation, we encourage COVID-19 vaccinations and require successful applicants to undergo a Working With Children Check, Police Check and potentially an International Check.