Youth Mental Health Clinician Headspace

**About Us**:
We are leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

Stride is a name that expresses our ambition - it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

As we embark on our next stage, join us to make a difference. We're here to Stride.

**Our Service**:
headspace Centres act as a one-stop-shop for young people who need help with mental health, physical health, alcohol and other drugs and/or work and study support.

The key principle of the Uplift program within headspace is a commitment to providing age appropriate, youth friendly services which are engaging and acceptable to young people and that are congruent with the stage of development of the individual.

**On offer**:

- Based in Armstrong Creek, VIC
- Permanent, full-time opportunity available
- Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free)
- Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
- Leave loading at 17.5%
- Stride Rewards - access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
- One paid wellbeing leave day per year
- Purchase up to 5 additional leave days in a 12 month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time)
- Paid parental leave support
- Supportive team environment
- Excellent training and career development

**Role overview**:

- Provide regular, flexible, non-clinical support and interventions to young people engaged with Uplift, their families, and other key stakeholders, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to support decision making processes relating to young people engaged with Uplift.
- Facilitate a range of tailored responses to assist young people to achieve developmentally (and culturally) appropriate independence, including provision of appropriate information, opportunity and/or linkages.
- Support young people to feel comfortable and safe to engage with health professionals and the environment in which services are delivered
- Where indicated, support and encourage young people to develop links with other services and/ or communities
- Develop and deliver age and developmentally appropriate psychosocial group work activities

**Requirements**:

- Ideally Tertiary level education in a Human Services, Education, Health, related discipline
- Experience in a similar role including Youth Support Work, Community Development, or Health Promotion Officer
- An understanding and passion for the health and wellbeing of young people
- Knowledge of the rationale, principles and evidence for early intervention for mental health of young people
- Capacity to work outside of a structured environment for the engagement of young people and their families or key stakeholders i.e. outreach to local organisation or schools, home visits.
- Ability to work autonomously with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, in particular with young people and in relation to clinical and non-clinical staff and stakeholders
- Appointed to headspace Armstrong Creek, however, may be required to work from a number of other sites and in an outreach capacity to meet young person and service requirements.
- Drivers license and use of your own vehicle
- Some flexibility may be required in relation to the hours of work.
- Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a WWCC
- Current Driver's license

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

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