Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Clinical Psychologist, Psychologist, Mental Health Accredited Social Workers or Mental Health Accredited Occupational Therapist who wants to join the expanding headspace Taringa team?

• Would like to deliver mental health care that is not constrained by Medicare Better Access sessions?
• Being able to provide the level of mental health care a young person actually needs.
• Would you like to work alongside a Care Coordinator to provide team-based care?
• Work in a motivating team environment
• Able to work creatively and resourcefully with young people to help them to achieve their goals and manage their mental health;
• Highly developed communicator, problem solver with great negotiation skills;
• Excellent time management skills;
• Relevant experience working with young people with complex needs.

We currently recruiting for a Mental Health Clinician to join our headspace team. This program is funded by the PHN under flexible funding to support young people with, or at risk of, severe mental health issues.

About headspace

headspace is Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Our mission is to deliver improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young people aged 12 to 25 years.

Our multi-disciplinary team of health professionals provide support to young people in the areas of primary health, mental health, drug and alcohol and vocation and education services.

The Role

You will work as part of a team to support young people with complex needs who would normally be difficult to support under the limitations of Medicare in a headspace setting. A key part of this role will be to provide evidence-based clinical mental health interventions for young people will complex mental health issues. The support provided to young people will be in conjunction with the Care Coordinator – Enhanced headspace Services, the wider headspace Taringa team and external service providers.

The positions will focus on:

• Undertaking clinical assessment and developing formulations and treatment plans for young people with, or at risk of, severe mental health issues;
• Delivering evidence-based mental health interventions to young people;
• Working and liaising with other professional stakeholders to ensure comprehensive and well-coordinated care is provided;
• Undertaking risk assessments and developing risk management plans for young people;
• Over time empowering young people to build the skills to support themselves;
• Working with young people to strengthen and enhance their capacity to become self-directed in coordinating and managing their own mental health needs and increasing their economic participation;
• Ensuring documentation and records are of a high standard and completed within reasonable timeframes.

This role is full time, current funding is until 30 June 2020.

Our commitment to you:

• Culturally safe working environment
• Investment into your professional development
• Strong leaders, who are passionate and foster great teams and drive engagement
• $82,000 plus super
• Option to salary sacrifice up to $15,900

For further details, please email [email protected].