Triage Team Leader Icymhs

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Fixed term - Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $50 - $60

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 2502

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- **Fantastic Opportunity to Join the ICYMHS Triage Team at Austin Health**:

- **Fixed Term Part Time 19 hrs per week, Job Share**:

- **Heidelberg location**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the North East of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Services**

ICYMHS provides tertiary mental health services to the north-eastern catchment of Melbourne (currently the local government areas of Banyule, Boroondara, Darebin, Nillumbik, Whittlesea, and Yarra).

**About the Role**

Seeking an experienced and creative senior mental health clinician for a job shared team leader role of our ICYMHS Triage team. The team is a highly experienced, busy and vibrant multi disciplinary team within Austin's Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Directorate.

This is an exciting time to join us here at Austin Health_- ICYMHS _bringing your expertise into this important area of work to ensure access to and delivery of great quality mental health care

You will:

- Demonstrate leadership and supervision in a mental health setting
- Display a clear understanding of tertiary level access and referral processes and an expertise in the mental health needs of young people and their families
- Provide high quality, evidence-based clinical and risk assessment at point of referral
- Strong leadership within the multi-disciplinary team and the wider ICYMHS and Austin departments to ensure that referrals processes and access is responsive to the individual needs of young consumers and their families.
- Clear Patient centred focus ensuring that consumers have timely access to mental health services and other relevant community resources to assist in their ongoing treatment and recovery.

**About You**

You will bring:

- A strong passion and background in supporting mental health and wellbeing of young people and their families.
- An extensive understanding of triage, risk and access principes within a recovery-focused model.
- Strong experiences in operational oversight, training and supervision as part of your role.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to engage with referrers, young people, their carers and community alike.
- A commitment to ensuring safe, best-practice care that puts consumers at the heart of the decision-making process.

If you have strong background in triage and intake assessment and planning alongside significant mental health experience and are keen to share your knowledge and ideas in service design and system change to benefit Austin ICYMHS then please consider the role.

We are very keen to have you on board.

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Applications close: 2 February 2025