Mental Health Clinician

19 hours ago


Melbourne, Australia Austin Health Full time

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Full Time - Fixed Term

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $45 - $55

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 2280

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**

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 Department**

The Central Youth Community Team (CYCT) is one of several community outpatient teams within the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). It is a multi-disciplinary team that offers individual and group assessment, treatment, consultations, and a clinical case management service to young people with a variety of complex and severe mental illnesses and/or disorders.

CYCT primarily provides services to young people aged 12-18 (with work underway to expand this age range to 25) in the Central LGAs of the Austin ICYMHS catchment areas, namely Banyule and Nillumbik. The service currently operates within business hours, with a view to expand operating hours in the future to improve accessibility in line with Royal Commission recommendations.

**About the role**

**_ This is a 12-month fixed-term full time parental leave backfill contract position._**

As a mental health clinician, it is expected that you will work collaboratively within the team and broader ICYMHS teams to support young people who present with mental health concerns as well as to provide support to, their families, carers and communities. The incumbent will contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of enhancements to the model of care for youth ensuring practice is in line with contemporary evidenced based mental health models of care and current Victorian initiatives including the Recovery Framework.

**About you**

You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work. You'll have strong organisational and time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.

To be successful in this role you will bring with you:

- A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology), with current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, as well as registration with APHRA (where necessary)
- Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual, outreach and carer-focused clinical services
- Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective
- Experience in developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: 03 January 2025



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