Mental Health Clinician-headspace Malvern

Permanent Part-Time 0.9 EFT, headspace Malvern
- Collaborative and supportive team environment
- Thriving not for profit organisation with salary packaging

**About Us**

Access Health and Community, with a 150-year legacy of compassionate care, is on a mission to build healthier lives together. Our team of over 400 dedicated employees and 200 volunteers, serves across 18 locations. We are thrilled to announce our upcoming merger with Inspiro, a trusted partner in community health. Inspiro, with a skilled team of 100, is dedicated to providing accessible, inclusive, and high-quality care in the Yarra Ranges. This merger strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional care and opens up new opportunities for our team and the communities we serve.

**The opportunity**

Join a supportive and values-based culture with an engaged workforce at headspace Malvern, a part of Access Health and Community (AccessHC). We are dedicated to providing mental health, alcohol and other drugs (AOD), and wellbeing services to young people aged 12-25. Our mission is to create an empowering environment where young people feel encouraged to seek help and thrive. You will ensure that young people seeking counselling are linked in with family, community and friendships networks, have pathways to education and workforce participation and have access to a range of support and services in relation to health, housing and developmental needs.

Reporting to the Manager, headspace Hawthorn & Malvern, you will welcome young people and their family and friends with hope and empathy, using a ‘no wrong door’ approach. You will undertake mental health assessments, develop goals in collaboration with the young person and work with family/friends and other professionals to coordinate care. This work will be supported by the multidisciplinary team and Senior Clinician at headspace Malvern to ensure a holistic approach to the young person’s care.

This is a Permanant Part time 0.9EFT position and services may be delivered in person or via telehealth and based on site at headspace Malvern.

**What you will** be doing**

***_Key Responsibilities_
- Undertake assessments
- Deliver ‘session by session’ (single session) support and brief interventions where appropriate.
- Provide short
- medium term evidence-informed psychological interventions to a caseload of young people, their family and friends
- Work collaboratively with schools, community groups and other key people in the young person’s life
- Assess, monitor and proactively manage clinical risk
- Actively participate and work cooperatively within the multidisciplinary team, collaborative partner organisations and with young people, family/friends, referrers and other stakeholders
- Ensure clinical files are maintained to a high standard to facilitate good clinical management and accountability and that other reporting requirements are documented within required timeframes to a high standard

**What you will bring**
- _**Key Selection Criteria**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in psychology or social work
- Current registration with AHPRA as a psychologist, or registration with the AASW as a Mental Health Social Worker
- Demonstrated experience working in youth, mental health, alcohol and other drugs, community or similar health services (minimum two years’ experience is preferred)
- Experience and recognised training in clinical risk assessment and management (including suicide risk assessment)

**Attributes**
- An approach that aligns with trauma-informed care principles of welcome, hope and empathy when working with young people and their family/friends
- Genuine interest and passion working with young people and their family/friends
- Skills in working with young people across the 12-25-year age group and a range of developmental stages
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective time management and prioritisation skills
- Good knowledge and understanding of the youth mental health and related services sector
- Demonstrated ability to work creatively and respectfully with young people from a diverse range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, including LGBTIQA+, culturally and linguistically diverse, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Demonstrated behaviours consistent with AccessHC values

**Access Health and Community Culture & Benefits**

At AccessHC, we offer more than just a fulfilling career; we invest in our people and provide an environment where you can thrive in a culture of collaboration and support. Our team members share commitment and passion to make a positive impact and this ethos creates a range of benefits for our people from opportunities for personal and professional growth to a sense of purpose and belonging.

Our culture promotes an environment of success and fulfilment. Join us and experience a career where you truly make a difference.