Address- Great salary packaging benefits!
- Permanent role | Part time 30.4 hours/week
- Plenty Valley Location
Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental distress and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.
Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives for more than 45 years.
We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.
About the role
headspace in partnership with Mind aims to promote and facilitate improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young people aged 12-25 years residing in the Eastern suburbs. Services in this space are delivered across four core streams - primary health care, mental health, alcohol and other drug (AOD) and social/vocational to improve access for young people to mental health programs.
We are seeking a self-motivated and compassionate Clinical Lead for a permanent, part time (30.4 hours per week) opportunity in the Plenty Valley area. You will provide leadership to a multidisciplinary team to provide person-centred care and treatment to young people with mild to moderate mental ill health. In this role you will also undertake a small caseload of intake, assessments, key work and counselling.
Key responsibilities
- Coach and lead staff to deliver high quality services to young people, families friends and carers.
- Positively influence and contribute to a service and team culture that focusses on meeting the goals of young people using evidence informed practice.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team offering specialised psychosocial support.
- Provide practice and clinical supervision to staff who are providing direct support to individual young person as well as supervision to other staff
What you’ll bring
- Tertiary degree qualifications in Allied Health (Occupational Therapy, Social Worker, Psychology or Psychiatric Nursing).
- Expertise in working directly with young people with mental health issues, complex needs, and with their families, friends and carers.
- Demonstrated capacity to effectively lead, coach and develop a team to achieve best quality service outcomes including experience in the provision of professional supervision.
Benefits
- Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
- Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading.
- Learning, development and career opportunities.
Interested?
To obtain a position description and apply online visit Mind Careers - reference number 494128. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Monday 17 June 2024. Please contact the person below for more information.
Jacqueline Thompson Bennetts, Service Manager Headspace
***************@mindaustralia.org.au
The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.
PD Clinical Lead (headspace Greensborough) 20231010.pdf
