Clinician

**Department of Human Services**

**Job reference**: 564519

**Location**: 5108 - SALISBURY

**Job status**: Long Term Contract

**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

**Role Highlights**
- Access excellent learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Provide a range of services to promote wellbeing of young people

**Role Details**

The Clinician is responsible to the Supervisor, for provision of a range of interventions for vulnerable infants and parents.
The Clinician, Safe Start works collaboratively with midwives and other health professionals to provide case management to assist families form relationships with service providers that will assist them achieve their personal goals.
The Clinician provides high quality services to eligible women, fathers and their families where significant indicators of family and infant vulnerability have been identified.
The role contributes to the development and implementation of a service of best practice delivering an effective and efficient client focused service that will meet the needs of clients.
The role also contributes to the maintenance of data and record management to improve service delivery, develops skills and expertise in a specialised area and supports and actively participates in a positive culture and safe work environment.
Key outcomes and accountabilities:
1. Provide expertise in the delivery of quality services to eligible women, fathers and their family through providing an effective delivery of family support services to their families identified with high and complex needs through antenatal assessments.
2. Provide comprehensive assessments in partnership with families, family support workers and other services using a range of therapeutic intervention approaches to engage families.
3. Provide culturally relevant family focussed restorative practice interventions that are infant centred, strength based and informed by both evidence base and practice wisdom and are developed in partnership with families - ensure families are actively engaged in the development of goals and strategies that are relevant to their desired outcomes.
4. Contribute to an effective and efficient client focussed service that will meet the needs of clients through demonstrating an empowerment and strengths-based philosophy that is imbedded within service delivery approaches and developing a partnership approach with families to determine the goals, focus and pace of service engagement delivery.
5. Support sustained intervention to vulnerable families utilising a multi-discipline and inter-agency approach.
6. Demonstrate a flexibility of service delivery approaches to respond to individual family circumstances and needs ensuring the client issues will be responded to promptly and effectively.
7. Lead the assessment of safety and negotiating the mediation of risk to infants by communicating effectively and efficiently with the Manager in relation to issues of escalation of care.
8. Contribute to the maintenance of data and record management to improve service delivery by ensuring that all relevant client data is completed and accurately entered into the client management system; provide appropriate data collection, research and evaluation procedures are implemented thus contributing to documentation on preventative programs.
9. Maintain high quality case notes and recording and participate in regular case reviews and file audits; and manage client files and documentation in accordance with the Department’s guidelines, policies and practices and the State Records Act 1997.
Note: Any other responsibilities in line with the classification level of the role as assigned by Line Manager and/or the Department. The responsibilities as specified above may be altered in accordance with the changing requirements of the role.

**Special Conditions**

National Police Check required.
Employment-related Screening Check required.
Some interstate and intrastate travel may be required.
Must hold a current Australian issued driver’s licence (equivalent to minimum class C).
Covid -19 - will be required to be up to date on their COVID-19 vaccination status prior to engagement with DHS, unless it would be medically unsafe for the employee to do so.
Essential Qualifications:

- An appropriate Social Work qualification from a recognised tertiary institution giving eligibility for full membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers or
- An appropriate degree or equivalent qualification and general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. Registration must be obtained prior to commencement in the role.

**About the Business**

Community and Family Services supports vulnerable people and families to participate in social and economic life and build stronger communities. This division comprises three key areas:
**Safer Family Services (SFS) **provides a wide range of intensive family support services to children, young people and families