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Make a Real Difference – Become a YES Navigator

Imagine being the steady hand that helps a young person find clarity during one of the most uncertain times of their life. As a YES Navigator, you won’t just work behind a desk — you’ll walk alongside young people, supporting them to reconnect with their strengths, their communities, and their future.

Employee Benefits

- Above Award Salary - $100,941.75 - $105,513.82 (Based on Qualifications and Experience)

- Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options of up to $15,899 per FBT year.

- Excellent Learning & Development opportunities.

- Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for personal and professional wellbeing.

- A full-time, ongoing opportunity located in our bright and welcoming Hamilton office.

About the Role

The YES Navigator role is your opportunity to lead meaningful, life‑changing work on the frontline of youth mental health in Hamilton.

Working closely with clinicians and a multidisciplinary team, you’ll support young people experiencing mental health challenges through assertive outreach, home‑based care, and flexible case coordination. You’ll connect them to the right services—headspace, education, employment, housing, or specialist care—while walking beside them through some of life’s toughest moments.

We’re looking for someone with clinical expertise, compassion, and a deep commitment to equity and culturally responsive practice. You’ll play a key role in delivering early intervention programs, reducing stigma, and building strong local referral pathways through community engagement and outreach.

This is more than a support role; you’ll be helping to embed the evidence‑based YES model into the local system, ensuring it’s responsive to the unique needs of young people and their families.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver assessment and short‑to‑medium term multidisciplinary interventions with a view to progressively linking the young person into appropriate longer‑term care arrangements, as necessary, in a planned and coordinated manner.

- Support access to services for a range of holistic needs, including general healthcare, alcohol and other drug services, and education and employment.

- Provide evidence‑informed mental health interventions within a case management framework to ensure comprehensive, client‑centred care that addresses the psychosocial, emotional, and risk‑related needs of young people.

- Assist the Clinical Lead to effectively administer the program’s services in accordance with service plans, service agreements and funding body requirements.

- Develop pathways and interventions to enhance cultural awareness, safety and competence in the provision of services in collaboration with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations.

Required Skills

- A minimum of two years post‑graduation experience of providing evidence‑based mental health and co‑occurring AoD interventions and case management to young people and their families.

- Knowledge and links with a range of youth‑related community supports and networks.

- Demonstrated experience in the evaluation and continuous improvement of early intervention models that are responsive to young people from a variety of backgrounds experiencing mental health, substance use and psycho‑social problems.

- Demonstrated skills and experience in managing young people at risk, including suicide and risk to others and from others.

Required Credentials

- Tertiary Diploma or Bachelor degree in a relevant discipline (for example Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Psychology or Mental Health Nursing, Alcohol and Other Drugs, or Counselling).

- Minimum of two years’ experience of working in mental health.

- A current Drivers Licence.

About Brophy

Brophy Family & Youth Services has supported children, young people, families, and the southwest Victorian community for almost 50 years. We live here; this is our community; we believe in people and in their ability to create the life they want. At Brophy, you will join a team of just over 170 employees delivering over 40 programs and services across areas including youth engagement, mental health, family violence, foster care, housing support, employment support, and disability services.

At Brophy our Vision is not just focused externally on our community – we feel just as passionate about our employees being meaningfully connected through their roles with us to create the life they want, and that as a workforce we achieve this together through innovation and healthy relationships, and by positively contributing to building an advantaged community.

Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy

Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities.

Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.

Contact

For more information please contact Atif Saeed – Clinical Lead on 03 5561 8888.

Application Information

Applications NOW OPEN We’re excited to hear from interested candidates and will be reviewing applications as they arrive. To give yourself the best opportunity, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as suitable applicants may be invited to interview or offered the role during the recruitment process.

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