• Grade 2

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) provides secondary and tertiary care to children and young people across the northern and western suburbs; specialist paediatric healthcare to the children of Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and parts of South Australia; and is the designated state-wide provider of services including paediatric trauma, rehabilitation and forensic medicine. As a quaternary centre for complex cardiac surgery and organ transplantation, the RCH cares for the sickest children from around Australia.

With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 6000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.

The Royal Children’s Hospital is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Click here for further information on our Commitment to Child Safety: http://www.rch.org.au/quality/child-safety/

Further information about RCH is available at www.rch.org.au

The Role:

The role purpose of the Gatehouse Centre Clinician is to provide therapeutic services for the assessment and treatment of children, young people and families where sexual abuse, problem sexual behaviour or sexually abusive behaviour are of concern. This role will include responding to and documenting referrals for service, inquiries regarding child sexual abuse, crisis care presentations and participation in all duty team activities. To actively participate as an effective member of the Gatehouse Centre therapy/advocacy team at both at RCH and outreach sites in Northern and Western metro area.

Key Selection Criteria:

• Demonstrated high level of communication skills – written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to provide a crisis care response
• Demonstrated ability to provide therapeutic services to sexually abused children and young people and their families
• Demonstrated ability to provide therapeutic services to children and young people who display problem sexual behaviours and harmful sexual behaviours and their families
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and cooperatively as part of a cross disciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and show initiative
• Demonstrated ability to provide supervision to therapists, psychologists and counselling students
• Willingness to participate in Gatehouse Centre program development activities including the provision of community education and training and quality programmes

To view the PD, please click here.

**Part time ongoing & part time fixed term positions available