Job posted: 19/12/2024
Open to: Grade 3 Occupational Therapist/Psychologist/Social Worker/Speech Pathologist, and Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses
Type: Permanent part-time (40 hours per week with ADO every 4 weeks)
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide.
We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) team The AIM team at Austin Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS) is a multi-disciplinary team that provides an intensive outreach service to vulnerable and at-risk 12–18-year-old adolescents who live in complex family and systemic circumstances.
About the role As a Senior Mental Health Clinician, you will primarily provide an intensive outreach mental health service to high-risk young people aged 12-18 years, as well as their families and wider service systems within the Austin ICYMHS catchment.
You'll work collaboratively with AIM clinicians and broader ICYMHS staff and teams to support young people who find it difficult to engage in office-based services and are at risk of harm.
A regular day will see you:
Deliver high quality care for a small clinical caseload, as well as consultation and liaison with organisations.Provide direct service in the clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of young people and families utilizing individual outreach approaches and selected treatment modalities.Complete a high standard of accurate and timely clinical and operational documentation and data entry in accordance with ICYMHS standards.About you You will have excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with strong organisational and time management abilities.
To be successful in this role you will bring:
A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing, or speech pathology) and current registration with the relevant professional board, association, or college.Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness.Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice.Experience in developing individualised service plans for mental health case management.Work with us! We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People.
We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and, if required, a Working With Children Check.
Application closing date: 3 January 2024
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