• Perm Fulltime, Psychologist Grade 3 or MHSW, headspace, South Melbourne
• Salary $111,387 – $126,819 +super, salary packaging & wellbeing support
• Collaborative and supportive culture in a beautiful new build premise

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

This is a fantastic opportunity to 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. Reporting to the Manager, you will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and support to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring a holistic and welcoming approach to young people and their families. This role includes managing a small caseload, facilitating clinical meetings, and overseeing risk escalations. The team conducts mental health assessments, collaborates on care plans, and coordinates support with families and professionals. Supported by the headspace Manager, you will uphold evidence-based clinical standards to deliver high-quality in-person and telehealth services.

The salary range for this role is $111,387 – $126,819 plus superannuation, with access to salary packaging benefits.

We welcome applications from individuals with postgraduate qualifications in psychology and current AHPRA registration as a Psychologist or Clinical Psychologist. We also encourage Mental Health Social Workers, and professionals with a Master of Counselling or experience specialising in AOD backgrounds to apply.

What you will be doing

• 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

What you will bring

• Postgraduate qualifications in psychology and current registration with AHPRA as a Psychologist or Clinical or MHSW with or working towards accreditation and people from AOD or Counselling backgrounds
• 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

Access Health and Community Culture & Benefits

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: https://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: https://accesshc.org.au/careers/

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

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.

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