Youth Mental Health Clinician

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing

Reference: 46650

**Mental Health Clinician, Adolescent Intensive Management Team, Austin Health ICYMHS**
- Open to: Occupational Therapist/Psychologist/Social Worker/Speech Pathologist, and also Registered Psychiatric Nurses
- Full-time Grade 2 (40 hours per week, 38hour +ADO)

**About the Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) team**

The AIM team at Austin Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS) is a multi-disciplinary team that provides an intensive outreach service to vulnerable and at-risk 12-18 year-old adolescents who live in complex family and systemic circumstances. Young people supported by AIM require enhanced treatment and a flexible approach. Typically the young people seen by AIM are not able to attend office-based assessment or treatment and have a number of other care systems involved.

The systemic framework of the service means that team members work to empower young people and their support networks to think about their difficulties in a creative way and identify flexible solutions to mental health problems. The AIM team also work collaboratively with the colleagues from the Youth Brief Intervention Service, who provide systemic and family-oriented brief interventions to young people and their families.

The ICYMHS service is expanding over the next year to incorporate 18-25 years in all its programs.

**About the role**

As a Mental Health Clinician you will primarily provide an intensive outreach mental health service to high risk young people aged 12-18 years, as well as their families and wider service systems within the Austin ICYMHS catchment. You'll work collaboratively with AIM clinicians and broader ICYMHS staff and teams, to support young people who find it difficult to engage in office-based services and are at risk of harm.

A regular day will see you:

- Deliver high quality care for a small clinical caseload, as well as consultation and liaison with organisations
- Provide direct service in the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of young people and families utilising individual outreach approaches, selected treatment modalities suitable for engaging young people in their recovery, which may include mental health promotion and other professional development/capacity building activities
- Complete a high standard of accurate and timely clinical and operational documentation and data entry in a timely and efficient manner, and in accordance with CYMHS standards of documentation and relevant professional/mental health sector statutory requirements

**About you**

You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work. You'll have strong organisational and time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.

To be successful in this role you will bring with you:

- A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology) and current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college
- Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual, outreach and carer-focused clinical services
- Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective
- Experience in developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems

**A career with Austin Health**
- We foster a culture that celebrates and respects each and every person
- Attractive rates matched to your experience and Accrued Day Off every month for full time staff
- $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- Conveniently located in the suburbs near public transport
- A commitment to assist with career development opportunities
- Ongoing clinical support with individualised professional development plans
- We offer a range of great benefits, rewards and discounts for staff including private health insurance, local fitness centres, travel and many local business goods and services.
- Employees and their direct family members can receive free professional, confidential counselling through the Austin Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Mindfulness meditation classes are available for employees at all three main hospital sites.

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