Senior - Youth Service

Buscojobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Mental Health Clinician - Youth Early Psychosis Service (YEPS), part of Austin Health's ICYMHS

• Open to Grade 3 Occupational Therapist, Psychologist, Social Worker, Speech Pathologist, or Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses
• Ongoing full time 38 hours per week, plus a monthly accrued day off

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 goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About YEPS

YEPS is a specialty programme of the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). YEPS is a multi-disciplinary team that provides early intervention and treatment to young people aged 16-25 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis and live in the Banyule and Nillumbik local government areas. YEPS clinicians provide evidence-based, phase-specific treatment for young consumers and support to their families or carers, and utilise the Austin Health Early Psychosis Treatment Guidelines. The service operates within business hours. Currently the team office is located in Heidelberg. Travel will be expected between campuses as required and in an outreach capacity for the purposes of fulfilling the needs of the allocated caseload.

About the role

The Senior Mental Health Clinician position is primarily a community case manager role, providing an intensive outreach mental health service to young people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. As a community case manager, it is expected that you will work closely with the YEPS multidisciplinary team, under the direction of the Program Manager, Team Leader, and the Consultant Psychiatrist, and with additional support from the relevant discipline senior to provide holistic and recovery-orientated case management to young people accessing the service. Treatments offered include medication, psychotherapy, family work, alcohol and other drug support, and vocational support.

The team work collaboratively in practice and draw on a strong understanding of systems approaches and frameworks to complex care and case management. Outreach and engaging young people within their community is a key aspect of the role.

A regular day will see you :

• Deliver high quality care for a small clinical caseload, as well as consultation and liaison with organisations.
• Provide direct service in the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of young people and families utilising individual outreach approaches, selected treatment modalities suitable for engaging young people in their recovery, which may include mental health promotion and other professional development / capacity building activities.
• Complete a high standard of accurate and timely clinical and operational documentation and data entry in a timely and efficient manner, and in accordance with ICYMHS standards of documentation and relevant professional / mental health sector statutory requirements.

About you

You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work. You will have strong organisational and time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.

To be successful in this role you will bring with you :

• A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology) and current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, with minimum years of clinical experience for a senior role according to the Enterprise Agreement, specific to experience with children and young people within a tertiary mental health setting.
• Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual, outreach and carer-focused clinical services.
• Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental / systemic perspective.
• Experience in developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families / carer systems.

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 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!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or have questions about this opportunity, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager : Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach at [emailprotected]