Clinical Practice Leader

Youth Justice and Victim Support; Brisbane; Sur place; AUD 140 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Youth Justice and Victim Support – Wacol QLD is seeking a Clinical Practice Leader to oversee a multidisciplinary allied health team within a Youth Detention Centre. The role requires supervision, mentoring, and clinical guidance to ensure high-quality, culturally appropriate services for young people in detention.

The successful candidate will advise on assessments, develop treatment plans, and support staff in evidence-based practices while collaborating with departmental and external

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of an allied health team in a secure or youth-focused setting.
• Strong knowledge of developmental and cognitive assessments.
• Commitment to culturally appropriate service delivery.
• Ability to provide supervision, training and performance development.
• Understanding of relevant policies and procedures in youth detention.

Responsabilités

• Demonstrate cultural capability and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural connections.
• Supervise a team of allied health professionals to deliver high-quality youth justice client support.
• Provide supervision, manage workloads, and coordinate staff training.
• Maintain contemporary professional knowledge and advise on assessments and interventions in a secure environment.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary planning, policy development and quality improvement.
• Coordinate training on Neurodevelopmental Disability, Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Practice.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Clinical supervision

Mentoring

Developmental assessments

Description du poste

Youth Justice and Victim Support – Wacol QLD

The role of the Clinical Practice Leader within the Youth Detention Centre is unique due to the oversight, supervision, mentoring and professional advice that is required to be provided to a team of Allied Health professionals. The Clinical Practice Leader has oversight of a team that may consist of: Speech and Language Pathologists, Registered Psychologists, Provisional Psychologists and Occupational Therapists.

A strong knowledge of developmental and cognitive assessments would be a necessary asset within this role, as the Clinical Practice Leader needs to ensure that high-quality, professional clinical services are delivered by the team to young people in detention. These services are required to be culturally appropriate and consistent with departmental policies.

Key responsibilities

• Demonstrate cultural capability and/or a commitment to developing cultural capability to ensure an inclusive culture that aligns with the Human Rights Act 2019 and supports departmental programs and community partnerships aimed at preserving cultural connections for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Supervise a team of allied health professionals within a Youth Detention Centre to ensure the delivery of high-quality youth justice client support services and evidence-based interventions that are culturally appropriate.
• Provide regular supervision and performance development to team members; prioritisation and monitoring of workloads; coordination and/or delivery of training to team members; and quality assurance of work to ensure alignment to legislative requirements, departmental policies, practice standards and procedures.
• Maintain a contemporary professional knowledge of the relevant disciplines of Allied Health professionals within the team and provide advice regarding therapeutic interventions; assessments and report writing; and working within a secure environment; to allied health professionals. In addition, provide advice to detention centre staff about suicide risk management processes and correlating policies and procedures in order to ensure compliance by staff across the centre.
• Ensure that all members of the work team contribute to multi-disciplinary collaboration, planning and review processes with an emphasis on coordinated and integrated service response. This includes development and delivery of Behaviour Support strategies and evidence-based management of young people who present with complex and challenging behaviours.
• Coordinate and deliver the implementation of discipline-specific training provided to detention centre staff to support their work with children and young people who have complex needs, including the topics of Neurodevelopmental Disability, Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Practice, Suicide Risk and Communicating with Young People.
• Provide specialised clinical practice advice and case management advice to internal stakeholders including the department's executive, Youth Justice Service Centres, Regional offices, interagency collaboration panels; and external stakeholders including: 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 specific young people.
• Provide specialised advice and consultation, in collaboration with Queensland Health, to detention centre leadership regarding the care and support of young people with diagnosed or undiagnosed disabilities, and/or mental health concerns.
• Participate as a member of the Youth Detention Centre and Client Services management team and contribute to strategic and operational planning; policy development; quality improvement reviews; complex case formulations; key decision-making; and recruitment and retention activities.
• Coordinate statistical performance reporting to identify identifies trends, client service delivery issues, service outcomes and client outcomes, where required.
• Allocate, prioritise and perform tasks in accordance with departmental policies, procedures, and human resources and financial and administrative delegations.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.