Clinical Practice Leader

Queensland Government; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Government seeks a Clinical Practice Leader to supervise allied health professionals in a Youth Detention Centre in Brisbane, delivering culturally appropriate interventions and evidence-based care for youth in custody.

You will provide regular supervision, training, and quality assurance, advise detention staff on suicide risk management, and coordinate with agencies to support integrated services for youths with complex needs.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated cultural capability and commitment to inclusive practice.
• Experience supervising allied health professionals in secure settings.
• Ability to translate evidence into youth-focused interventions.

Responsibilities

• Supervise allied health team within a Youth Detention Centre to deliver culturally appropriate care.
• Provide supervision, workload management, and performance development.
• Deliver discipline-specific training and ensure quality assurance per policies.
• Offer clinical and case management advice to internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead multi-disciplinary planning and integration of services for complex cases.

Skills

Cultural capability

Team supervision

Clinical practice

Suicide risk management

Training delivery

Quality assurance

Interagency collaboration

Strategic planning

Job description

Key responsibilitiesAs Clinical Practice Leader, you will specifically:- 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.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.