Clinical Lead Secasa East Bentleigh

Reference Number
- 62135
- Employment Type
- Full Time Ongoing
- Entity
- Monash Health
- Department
- SECASA
- Location
- East Bentleigh
- Position Summary
- Influence and drive practice for a team of sexual assault/ FV counsellors
- Evidence based training allowing you to be a competent trauma counsellor
- Provide supervision, reflective practice and PD sessions to counsellors

**Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.**

**Our Journey**

The South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence (SECASA), is a program of Monash Health and has the responsibility in the Southern Region of the Department of Families Fairness and Housing for:

- The provision and development of effective services to victim/survivors and associated people affected by sexual assault and family violence
- The provision and development of effective services for adolescents exhibiting sexually abusive behaviours
- The provision of public education and professional training on sexual assault and anti-violence issues
- Social planning and processes related to reducing societal violence

**A Day in the Life**

As a Grade 3 Clinical lead you will use use highly specialised knowledge of theories and evidence to assist patients/consumers, families and/or carers/significant others with psychosocial support and advocacy through psychosocial assessment, intervention, counselling, discharge planning, information provision and facilitates access to community services.

**What you bring**:

- An ability to ork independently within approved scope of practice to provide safe, evidence-based assessment, outcome measures, therapeutic care and/or discharge planning according to organisational policies and procedures in order to achieve optimal care
- Provide high levels of specialist knowledge, advice or guidance to other clinicians to support safe and effective consumer-centred care
- Lead/oversee high-performing clinical teams, and provide expert advice on clinical issues as required
- Work collaboratively with consumers, their families and/or significant others and other stakeholders to establish a patient/client focused multidisciplinary management plan, consistent with currently accepted professional standards of practice and evidenced based practice
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to deliver safe consumer-focused care, providing high levels of specialist knowledge
- Using high levels of specialist clinical reasoning, lead others to prioritise and fairly distribute workloads in collaboration with the team as required
- Evaluates the distribution of workloads, developing systems that respond to changes in clinical demands as required
- Ensure timely and responsive management of fluctuating referrals and waitlists as required, liaising with stakeholders to facilitate seamless healthcare to consumers
- Demonstrated extensive clinical experience working with and responding to complex trauma related to sexual assault and/or family violence
- Crisis intervention skills necessary for supporting people who have experienced sexual assault and/or family violence
- Experience working with clients with trauma related to sexual assault and/or family violence
- Have worked collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to enhance wellbeing and safety for clients
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and experience in preparing written reports for therapeutic and legal purposes
- Excellent team work, interpersonal and communication skills, including building trust and rapport with colleagues and delivery of commitments

**What you need**:
Social Work
- An Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) accredited Bachelor Degree or entry level Master’s Degree of Social Work that provides eligibility for membership of the AASW
- Written evidence of eligibility of AASW membership for overseas qualifications
- Minimum of seven years’ experience as a qualified social worker
- Accredited Social Worker: As approved by the AASW
- Desirable_
- Completion of a post-graduate qualification in a relevant field or working towards such a qualification

OR

Psychology
- Current general registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) AHPRA
- A minimum of five years’ experience as a generally registered psychologist
- Having or working towards supervisor endorsement with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA)
- Appropriate post-graduate qualifications (Masters or Doctoral Degree) in counselling, clinical or forensic psychology in an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accredited course.
- Evidence of participation in clinical research activities
- Desirable_
- Post graduate qualifications in a relevant field or working towards same.

**In Return**:

- You will be part of highly committed compassionate leadership team
- Be part of a service that values you and all you bring to the clinical lead role
- Strong focus on self-care and profession