Recovery Clinician

• Fixed term until 30/06/2024
• Part time (45.6 hours per fortnight)
• Remuneration SCHCADS level 5 dependent on qualifications and experience + 11 % Employer superannuation
• Employee Assistance Program available
• AASW & AHPRA membership & registration required

About the position

This role will ensure that the care delivered to young people is of the highest possible standard and that young people and their families/carers receive timely, responsive and appropriate services to meet their presenting and emerging needs. 

The role provides increased capacity to engage and support young people with complex needs and works closely with internal stakeholders such as GP’s, psychiatrists, centre-based intake clinicians and allied health practitioners along with other colocated or regional multi-sectorial youth service providers to facilitate coordinated care and treatment for moderate and complex mental health disorders.

This role will conduct assessments, provide evidence based mental health interventions and psychosocial interventions, case management, family work, coordination of multidisciplinary care, develop service linkages, and provide co-delivery of groups and services with other clinicians.

Some of your key responsibilities will be:

1. Ensuring appropriate triaging and monitoring of young people coming through the intake process, via phone, face to face and young people who ‘drop in’
2. Promote coordination of intake and referral processes both within headspace and external services particularly the Emergency Departments and GP’s and assist other team members with this
3. Provide secondary consultation to other staff regarding the initial screening of young people to identify those with mental health or drug and alcohol problems, or young people who may be at risk.
4. Provide relevant mental health related information, psycho-education for mental health and drug and alcohol problems, information on services available and how to access these to young people, families and the wider community.
5. Work in partnership with other headspace senior clinicians to support young people accessing the Emergency Department and assist in the identification and support of those young people at increased risk of self-harm and suicide.
6. Manage a case load of complex and higher risk young people which may include providing community outreach, provide assertive monitoring where clinically indicated and undertake shared care.

For full details of the position, please view the POSITION DESCRIPTION below.

Please note:

1. Service delivery aspects of the role may be modified in order to comply with Victorian Government COVID-19 guidelines.
2. As part of our Employment screening process you will be required to undertake a National Criminal History check and have a current Working with Children Check.
3. You must have Australian work rights to apply for this position.

Further Enquiries

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Atif Saeed, Clinical Team Leader, on 0397696*** regarding the role of Recovery Clinician – Recruitment Ref. Number 130_2023.

• YSAS is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
• YSAS has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation.