Mental Health Clinician

Job Description

**Posting Start Date**:13/12/2024

**Req ID**:2347

**Job Title**:Mental Health Clinician - Infant, Child and Family Team

**Employment Status**:Permanent Full Time

**Job Location**:Frankston
- **Exciting opportunity to be part of the expanding Infant, Child and Youth Program 0-11 Stream**:

- **Grow your clinical skills in a supportive team with a positive and supportive culture**
- **Permanent Full Time or Part Time position**
- **Classification: RPN GR 3 Year 1-3 (NP81-74), CLIN OCC THER GR 2 YR 1-4 (YF6-9), PSYCHOLOGIST GR 3 YR1-4 (PK1-PL4), CLIN S WKR GR 3 YR1-4 (SC21-24), SPEECH PATHOLOGIST GR 3 YR1-4 (VW 1-4) **

**Who We Are and What We Stand For**
Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.

In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values**:Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative.** We are One Peninsula Health.

**What You Will Be Doing**

The Infant, Child and Family Team is a small, multidisciplinary team delivering high quality mental health assessments, clinical and wellbeing interventions for infants, children (0-11 years) and their families and supporters, who are experiencing complex presentations with behavioural, developmental, social and emotional difficulties that are impacting on their development and psychosocial functioning.

It is anticipated that this team will provide a flexible, child and family friendly approach that involves assertive community treatment (outreach, clinic based and telehealth) and provides evidence informed interventions, including brief intervention, family interventions, clinical care co-ordination and secondary consultation.

This position is for an appropriately qualified mental health clinician (Psychologist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatric Nurse or Speech Pathologist to work part time (0.8EFT). The clinical case manager will have experience in mental health assessments, formulation and treatment within child and youth mental health services. This is a new and exciting opportunity for mental health clinicians with experience in child and adolescent mental health to actively participate in the establishment and expansion of the Infant, Child and Youth Service, while developing clinical mental health skills in a supportive environment.

For a more in-depth view of the role, please refer to - **Mental Health Clinician Position Description**

**What You Need**

We anticipate you will have:

- AHPRA registration or eligible for membership of Speech Pathology Australia or the Australian Association of Social Workers
- Psychologists: AHPRA endorsed area of practice in Clinical Psychology
- Nurses will have endorsed postgraduate qualifications in Mental Health
- Experience working with infants and children 0-11 years with significant mental health difficulties and their families and supporters, preferably in a community based setting (ie. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)
- Valid Drivers License
- Working with Children Check
- Experience providing clinical supervision to students and mental health clinicians

**What Next**


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**Additional Requirements**

We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process.
- Please refer to salary circular for Victorian Public Mental Health Service Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024 or Medical Scientists, Pharmacists and Psychologists Victorian Public Sector (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2021 -2025 for salary range. Sub-grading will be based on years of experience. It is strongly recommended that this role is up to date with Covid-19 vaccination.

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