El 1 Assistant Director

6 months ago


Brisbane, Australia Department of Veterans' Affairs Full time

Salary Range: $122,949 - $135,013 + Attractive Superannuation

The Assistant Director - Clinical Operations, reports directly to the Director Client Assist Contact Centre and is responsible for overseeing and managing the provision of a health and allied health telephony based service that provides clinical intake, escalations services, brief telephone counselling interventions, and risk identification and safety planning for veterans and their families who are seeking counselling support.

To achieve this, the Assistant Director - Clinical Operations role provides leadership support, clinical oversight and line management responsibilities for a team of clinicians in the Client Assist Contact Centre, in line with the Open Arms’ clinical practice policies and procedures.

The Assistant Director - Clinical Operations role also includes contributing as part of a broader leadership team to oversee and coordinate the clinical staff within a call centre environment, as well as being responsible for professional development activities for clinical staff, case consultations, coordinating resources, undertaking continuous improvement and monitoring quality assurance. Awareness of working within a rostered 24 hour telephony environment is an important component to the effectiveness of the role.

The Client Assist Contact Centre is open 365 days per year, 24 hours per day.

**Duties**
- Provide leadership support and clinical oversight for initial assessments and triaging clients engaging with Open Arms. This includes the direct line management of a team of up to 10 clinicians and provision of ongoing consultation and advice to all clinicians. Clinical oversight is especially required in cases with complex needs or where risk is identified. This may require coordination and consultation with Open Arms regions, national office and referrers in relation to clinical assessment and client allocation as required.
- Monitor the delivery of clinical intake and counselling services across the team to ensure consistency, adherence to relevant clinical policy, and administrative procedures. A strong focus should be on maintaining and improving national consistency in clinical activities, including clinical record keeping, and assessment of clinical risk and clients’ needs.
- Manage the development and implementation of Open Arms Intake protocols, procedures and best practices for the provision of high quality, nationally consistent intake service provision. This should include clear triage guidelines and protocols for responding appropriately to identify clinical risk among clients. This will include participating in planning and evaluation activities in consultation with the Director, Client Assist Contact Centre.
- Assist in identifying training and development opportunities of clinical staff. Consider and coordinate professional development for the clinical team through regular coaching and quality assurance reviews.
- Provide expert advice on policy, complex problem solving and issues management for internal and external stakeholders.
- Implement change and manage ambiguity in the workplace through strong leadership experience.
- Availability to undertake shift work between the hours of 7AM - 7PM, Monday - Friday.

**Desirable Experience**
- Experience in working within the Australian Public Service is highly desirable.
- Experience in leadership and the management of clinical teams
- Demonstrated experience in complex case management

**Mandatory Requirements**
- Currently hold or ability to obtain a Working with Vulnerable People registration **OR**:

- Currently hold or ability to obtain a Working with Children check

In addition to the above, one of the following:

- Qualifications as an AHPRA registered Psychologist / Mental Health Occupational Therapist / Mental Health Registered Nurse with full AHPRA registration, **OR**:
**Eligibility**
- Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS).
- All applicants external to DVA offered employment will be required to successfully undergo a pre-engagement screening check, even if they have a security clearance. The screening check is conducted in accordance with the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework requirements.

**Notes**

Where a non-ongoing position is offered, the role will be filled for an initial specified term of up to18 months.

A merit pool of suitable applicants may be created which may be used to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies should they become available over the next 18 months.

DVA is committed to improving the data skills and capability of our workforce to underpin our goal of becoming a leading data-driven organisation.



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