Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Work Type: Fixed Term - Full Time, Permanent - Full Time
Closing Date: 2025-01-20 4:00 PM
We have immediate permanent full-time opportunities on our North and East Acute Care & Response Teams (ACRT). This recruitment pool may be used to fill future similar vacancies.
We are building to serve the North, South and East metro regional areas.
About us:
This health service is a new service model, arising from our health's Taskforce. The team will provide a step up in intensity of service to children and adolescents experiencing a crisis or deterioration in their mental health. This will include crisis response, acute assessments, safety planning short-term interventions, supporting the young person and their family to the most appropriate destination post ACRT involvement. Care will be provided close to home in a community settings, reducing the need for hospital presentations.
As mental health conditions can deeply impact the emotional and social well-being of children and their families, our holistic and child-centered approach is designed to assist families and is focused on participation and engagement.
As a clinician on the team, you’ll be required to conduct home and community visits during business hours and out of hours on a rostered basis, including after hours and on weekends, based on operational needs. You’ll be part of a team that prioritises patient and staff safety and receive training and ongoing supervision as part of your role.
About the Role:
As a Senior Health Professional, Mental Health on our ACRTs, you’ll work within a multidisciplinary team to provide complex patient care in community-based settings to children, adolescents and their families. This includes assessments, crisis intervention, treatment and referral, as well as participating in interdisciplinary case conferences and clinical team meetings. You will also participate in ongoing evaluation of clinical practice, quality, management programs and quality improvement activities for our model of care.
What you will bring:
- Extensive experience implementing therapeutic techniques with children, adolescents (and their families) who have acute emotional, behavioural, psychological and psychiatric disorders
- Experience working in a community setting is valuable
- Demonstrated understanding of issues affecting culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) populations is desirable
- Flexibility and adaptability to be a part of operationalizing a dynamic new service
- Ability to work collaboratively across internal and external teams, services and stakeholders
Tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, occupational therapy, nursing, or other related field; and eligibility for registration with the relevant Registration Board of Australia, and specifically for Social Work - full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers or the Society of Professional Social Workers.
Eligibility to Apply: Australian citizenship or permanent residency is an essential requirement for applicants to be considered for permanent positions in the public sector. Visa sponsorship for eligible international applicants that meet immigration requirements may also be considered.
