Youth Mental Health Specialist

The Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service is Victoria's newest public mental health service dedicated to the care of young people aged 12 to 25 experiencing complex mental health challenges. We are a bold and values-driven transformation in youth mental health care across Melbourne's north and west, shaping our service model by the voices of young people and their communities, and underpinned by a commitment to safety, equity, and continuous learning.

We exist to walk alongside young people, their families, carers, supporters and kin delivering care that is accessible, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, evidence-informed, and grounded in lived experience. Our singular focus on youth means we're not just providing mental health care - we're reimagining how it's experienced, accessed, and delivered.

Our Custodial Forensic Youth Mental Health Service provides specialist youth mental health care in custodial settings (Parkville and Cherry Creek sites) to young people and their families/carers. We work collaboratively with Youth Justice staff to support young people voluntarily admitted to our new Mental Health Unit at Cherry Creek Youth Justice Custodial Precinct.

This key leadership position supports young people in CCYJP who are admitted on a voluntary basis. Develop your clinical mental health skills within a first-of-its-kind voluntary eight bed forensic mental health unit.

• Primary point of contact for clinical issues and a resource for staff on each shift
• Deliver evidence-based nursing care to young people in custody across a 24/7 rotating roster
• Provide specialist mental health nursing interventions, and effectively manage critical incidents and emergency situations
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver evidence-based interventions
• Deliver mental health nursing care from a Strengths-Based, Recovery-Focused framework
• Engage in 1:1 therapeutic work, clinical practice, advocacy, group facilitation, and mentorship/preceptorship

You will be responsible for providing high-quality patient care while working as part of a multidisciplinary team to achieve a high quality of service delivery.

The role incorporates 1:1 therapeutic time with young people, unsupervised clinical practice, consumer-advocacy, collaborative bed and unit management, research, supervision and mentorship/preceptorship and facilitation of groups.

As an ANUM you will assume responsibilities in the absence of the NUM, and assist with efficient operation of the clinical environment, workforce management and ensuring clinical standards to achieve a high quality of service delivery.

You will also provide opportunities for professional growth and development, and facilitate collaborative bed and unit management.

To be successful in this role, you will have a Bachelor's degree in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing or equivalent, or Bachelor Degree in Nursing. You will also have a Post-graduate qualification in Mental Health and comprehensive experience in the application of clinical and nursing practice in youth mental health including risk assessment, mental state assessment, psychoeducation, care coordination, ideally in an acute or subacute inpatient setting.

You will also have the ability to deliver personalised psycho-social care beyond the traditional medical model to facilitate recovery of young people, and demonstrated commitment to the recovery approach in mental health treatment and support, with a focus on working collaboratively with consumers and families/carers to promote self-determination and enable progress towards reaching consumers personal recovery goals.