Mental Health Clinician

Key responsibilities
**As a Mental Health Clinician, you will specifically**:
Provide quality clinical knowledge, services and skill to support collaborative case planning and tailored therapeutic interventions for young people in youth detention.
Complete discipline specific assessments and reports for young people in youth detention centres.
Develop, deliver, and contribute to behaviour support strategies assessments, intervention planning and management for young people who present with complex and challenging behaviours.
Coordinate and facilitate the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency suicide risk management process for young people, which will include collaboratively developing and reviewing safety intervention strategies and suicide prevention plans to ensure these accurately reflect stakeholder input and are available to a range of stakeholders for case planning purposes.
Support coordinated and integrated service responses across multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders within youth detention centres in Queensland.
Actively coordinate and participate in clinical case conferences and case management activities.
Provide specialised practice and case management advice to internal and external stakeholders, including interagency collaborative panels, Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT), Queensland Ombudsman Inspector of Detention Services, National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), Child Safety, Department of Education, Queensland Health and other agencies, regarding the clinical care and management of young people in the Youth Detention Centre.
Demonstrate cultural capability and communicate effectively and sensitively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, understanding the historical impacts of First Nations people in institutional settings, to ensure holistic service provision that takes cultural protocols, influences and events into consideration.
Lead regular peer collaboration and allocated case discussions to support clinical learning and development opportunities and continuous practice improvement contribute to the shared co-ordination of discipline specific daily tasks to independently deliver high quality work.
Contribute to strategic and operational planning, policy and practice development, and quality improvement reviews.
Understand the complexities of a high-risk environment and assist with the safety and security of the youth detention centres by adhering to operational procedures as required.
Support the delivery of specialised training to detention centre staff to assist their work with young people who have complex needs. Training content will include neurodevelopmental disability, mental health, trauma-informed practice, suicide risk and communicating with young people.
Undertake professional supervision, training and development, as agreed with the Clinical Practice Leader to ensure the maintenance of discipline specific registration requirements and provision of quality client services.
What we are looking for
We'll assess your suitability for this role by looking at what you've done previously - the knowledge, skills and experience you've built, your potential for development, and your personal qualities.
Every staff member is expected to role model leadership behaviours. This role requires the leadership capabilities of a team leader profile as outlined in the Leadership competencies for Queensland booklet.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.