Case Manager

**Reference Number**:3632

**Category**:Mental Health

**Department**:Child & Youth MHS

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- **Case Manager open to Social Worker Grade 2, Occupational Therapist Grade 2, and Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3 applicants**:

- **Make an impact on the lives of young people, their families and carers**
- **Full time opportunity, located at Austin Hospital in Heidelberg**

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 statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the Child Inpatient Unit**

The Child Inpatient Unit (CIPU) is part of Austin Health's Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS). We care for children from metropolitan and regional Victoria, NSW and Tasmania at present. The CIPU is a 12-bed unit which provides specialist inpatient psychiatric assessment and treatment for young people up to the age of 12 years with severe emotional and/or behavioural disturbance. Our community teams are currently based primarily at Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.

**About the role**

As the Case Manager, you will coordinate the team who works with the child and the family in providing high quality clinical care and case management using a holistic approach.

A regular day will see you:

- Supporting referrals and admissions for children and their families to the Child Inpatient Unit in a multi-disciplinary setting, with extensive preadmission work up, comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and treatment case on admission.
- Providing high quality secondary consultation to families, and to primary and other specialist service providers, on behalf of the team.
- Providing accurate, accessible and timely written records of clinical work, as required in CYMHS standards of documentation.

**About you**

You will be someone who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with consumers, families/carers, colleagues, clinical staff, and other health and welfare service.

To be successful in this role you'll bring with you:

- A clear understanding of and practice in the principles of recovery-orientated trauma informed and patient focused/family-centred care,
- Collaborative practice and expertise in engaging children and their families within a clinical setting.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including expressing own viewpoints respectfully and valuing the perspectives of others.
- Awareness and practice knowledge of relevant legislation and practice frameworks (e.g. Mental Health Act (2022) and Child Youth and Families Act (2005).

**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, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

**Work with us**

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

**Application closing date: Tuesday 26 August 2025