Mental Health Clinician

**Reference Number**:2446

**Category**:Mental Health

**Department**:Child & Youth MHS

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- **Permanent full time and part time position available**:

- **State-Wide Child and Family Centre**:

- **Mental Health Clinician Grade 2 (RPN 3 / SW2 / OT2 / SP2 / P2)**
- Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About Boooboop Narrkwarren Nagarra -jarra-noun (BNNJN)**
- BNNJN is part of the Mental Health Division within Austin Health. BNNJN is a newly established service situated offsite from Austin Health in a purpose-built facility. BNNJN is one of many programs within Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS)
- The Statewide Child & Family Centre (SCFC) provides a specialised therapeutic residential service for children aged up to 12 years who have experienced adverse life events and whose developmental trajectories continue to be disrupted by ongoing trauma related difficulties. The children’s difficulties are understood and responded to in the context of complexities in parent-child relating and family functioning, and challenges in community.
- The SCFC’s Model of Care aims to give children the best start in life by providing support early in the life of children’s and their families difficulties, by building children’s connections to family and community, and by empowering children and families to make choices that promote good physical and mental health connectedness.

**About the role**
- The Mental Health Clinician will provide direct care to families residing at the Centre. Working within a multidisciplinary team, the Mental Health Clinician will contribute to creating and maintaining a trauma informed, therapeutic milieu, identifying and promoting opportunities to improve parent-child/relational issues and family functioning and to increase the overall connectedness within the family and the community.
- A regular day will see you:

- Providing psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions to children and families residing at the Centre
- Facilitate group programs within the Centre for children, parents/carers and siblings
- Contribute your knowledge and skill set within the multidisciplinary team at care meetings and within care systems
- Coordinate referrals and admissions of children and families to the Centre
- Liaise with relevant community agencies, provide secondary consultation, training and promote the service to wider community

**About you**
- If you are passionate about working with children and families, possess knowledge and experience in current theoretical approaches and best practices, and enjoy being part of a multidisciplinary team that shapes the future of an innovative child and family mental health service, we would love to have you on board
- To be successful in this role you'll bring with you:

- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in working with children presenting with trauma-related mental health concerns, and their families.
- Experience in working therapeutically and systemically with children with mild to moderate mental health presentations.
- Demonstrated understanding of professional frameworks, theories, and practices as they relate to children and families and mental health.
- Demonstrated ability and knowledge of a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for both individuals and groups.
- Willingness and ability to work outside business hours and in an outreach capacity, including early morning and evening shifts, weekends, and possible overnight outreach.
- Working with Children Check and a police check are mandatory to work in this role

**Our benefits**
- Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: Friday 25 April 2025