Youth Wellbeing Worker

Clinical Other Melbourne Casual

6/9/2024
- Parkville location | Close to public transport, onsite parking
- Ongoing position | Casual
- Access to NFP salary packaging | Join a multidisciplinary team

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The Youth Wellbeing Workforce are key roles in the delivery of psychosocial recovery-focused care within Orygen Recovery. This workforce will work in collaboration with young people, their family/carers and the clinical workforce to provide a range of psychosocial interventions and support to assist young people with achieving their recovery goals.

Reporting to the Youth Wellbeing Discipline Lead you will:

- Provide support to young people, carers, families and significant others through psychosocial Recovery Oriented Practice to ensure individually tailored services for young people and their family and carers that is provided to the highest standard.
- Work collaboratively with the Orygen Recovery Coordinator, medical, clinical practitioners and lived experience workforce in understanding and managing young person risks.
- Understand the young person’s individual recovery goals and assist them to meet these goals. This may include facilitating access to local service providers with clinical mental health, physical health, education and employment, eligible entitlements and benefits, housing transport, recreation and social connections to support post discharge transitions back into the community.
- Promote Orygen Recovery by communicating regularly with, building and maintaining collaborative working relationships with health and welfare agencies and the general community.

The role works across three shifts per day including a day shift, afternoon/evening shift and an overnight shift (which includes a sleeping period).

What you’ll need

You are passionate, energetic and determined to make a difference to health and wellbeing outcomes for young people. The following criteria must be met for consideration for this position:

- Minimum qualifications of Certificate IV in mental health and previous experience working in youth mental health, or extensive experience in mental health.
- A thorough understanding and experience in a psychosocial model.
- Previous working knowledge of the common mental health and substance use issues faced by young people, and evidence-based treatments for major adolescent health issues.
- Ability to assess risk and follow relevant protocols to manage crisis situations calmly and effectively.

What you'll get in return
- Salary package between $73,804-$79,139 pro rata commensurate with skills and experience + 11.5% super + NFP salary packaging up to $15,900 + $2,600 meals card.
- Ability to purchase additional leave; access to EAP; generous Parental Leave Scheme.
- Flexible work to suit your lifestyle and access to policies and tools that support this.

Orygen - leading the revolution

Imagine a future with unlimited potential. A future where every young person enjoys optimal mental health as they grow into adulthood. At Orygen, this is our life’s work, because we passionately believe it’s what all young people deserve.

Every step of the way, young people and families are at the heart of everything we do. Always.
Through world-leading research that creates change. Through pioneering reform that delivers real-world practical solutions.

At Orygen, that’s the future we’re creating right now. To do it, we have revolution in mind.

Join the revolution

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Orygen is a child-safe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and well-being of all young people and embedding safeguarding practices into all our programs and services.