Clinical Case Manager. Permanent Full Time

**Job no**: 504743
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: Launceston & North East
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family

**About the Role**

Life Without Barriers Youth and Family Mental Health Services are accredited under the National Standards for Mental Health Services, and we are seeking an enthusiastic, engaging and experienced Mental Health Clinical Case Manager (Allied Health Professional) to join the iConnect Youth and Family Mental Health team in a full time permanent position commencing in late May. Case Managers work intensively 1-1 with young people and their families, to assist them to make significant improvements to their mental health, wellbeing and functioning and to walk alongside to help them achieve their goals. The role works in direct partnership with the Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) in Northern Tasmania (Launceston), where as a collaborative team, you will jointly work together to provide intensive support packages of care to young people, who are clients of CYMHS, with complex mental health issues. You will collaborate closely within the iConnect teams, who are located in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie.

As part of a highly skilled, supportive wrap around outreach mental health team, you will draw on a solid practitioner knowledge and experience base (minimum 2-5 years post graduate experience in mental health). Alongside the CYMHS clinical team, you will provide comprehensive care planning, risk assessment, and will deliver therapeutic 1-1 support and clinical case management through evidence based outcome oriented therapeutic modalities. You will support young people and their families with complex mental health and functional challenges.

The role is based in **Launceston** but you will also have the opportunity to work in the community and on an outreach basis in order to meet the needs of young people.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide a range of evidence-based psychosocial and psychological interventions to individuals/families presenting with multiple needs.
- Monitor and review clients progress against the care plan and outcome measures.
- Engage in case discussion and review with partner organisations and care team demonstrating client outcomes.
- Through intervention and clinical case management, and through linkage to support services, support clients to maintain or re-engage in education and/or employment, social, and recreational networks, self-management, independent living, and increase individual and community based relationships.
- Work jointly and collaboratively with CYMHS as the clinical lead, as well as other services to ensure effective wrap around intervention and support.
- Work collaboratively with the client and the care team to plan for and develop the skills to exit or transition from the service, including referral to other services where appropriate.

**Key Experience**
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant Allied Health profession, such as Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or other relevant Qualification, with at least 2-5 years post graduate clinical experience in mental health. Training and experience in therapeutic modalities such as DBT and ACT is an advantage but not essential.
- Demonstrated experience delivering therapeutic support to young people aged 12 - 18 years and their families.
- Demonstrated capacity to work both as part of a multi-disciplinary team, autonomously in the community with multiple clients.
- Highly developed analytical skills and demonstrated experience in developing care plans and psychological interventions with young people and families using a range of evidence based psychological interventions.
- The ability to work collaboratively with agencies that support people with complex and challenging needs such as with mental health services, GPs, Psychiatrists, or other statutory or community based services.
- Demonstrated experience operating within both internal and external Clinical Governance frameworks
- Full registration or eligibility for registration/membership with the relevant professional body/organisation.
- A genuine enthusiasm to work in youth friendly and trauma informed ways to provide therapeutic case management and a range of evidenced-based psychological interventions to deliver positive results.
- Willing and eager to provide interventions and case management support in an engaging, flexible and client focused recovery approach, and in a range of settings including outreach in rural areas and/or via e-health platforms.

**Benefits of Working with the iConnect team**
- Regular Opportunities for personal and professional development with a personalised professional development plan.
- Regular clinical supervision and reflective practice with a skilled clinical supervisor.
- Access to support tools and resources to effectively engage in therapeutic work in the community, including training in therapeutic modalities such as DBT.
- Manageable caseloads reflective of the needs o