AddressQueensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre are looking for a State-wide Community Partnerships & Integration Leader to join their team. This department provides specialist state-wide consultation services and programs for culturally and linguistically diverse individuals, families, service providers and community groups to facilitate culturally responsive mental health care. This leader will lead the design, delivery, and evaluation of the department's state-wide Community Partnerships and integration program comprising mental health prevention and early intervention initiatives tailored to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
The role has a focus on leading the strategic development, management and implementation of state-wide specialist transcultural mental health prevention, including suicide prevention, and early intervention programs through community engagement with multicultural agencies, groups and networks. The position is also responsible for providing authoritative advice to facilitate a culturally inclusive and integrated cross sector approach to mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention.
- Be compliant with the timely and accurate input and collection of consumer related demographic information, diagnosis, outcomes collections and provision of service activity into appropriate applications. The data and information includes the electronic entry and completion of documentation to meet legislative requirements, including Mental Health Act 2016 documentation, admissions, discharges and transfers.
- Develop and deliver population-level interventions and programs for CALD people (and to organisations that work with CALD people) aimed at promoting mental wellbeing, reducing stigma about mental illness, improving mental health literacy, preventing mental illness and intervening early.
- Lead and manage project teams to deliver prevention and early intervention initiatives state-wide informed by evidence based and best practice frameworks and principles.
- Apply culturally responsive and ethical approaches when engaging stakeholders in the planning, implementation and evaluation of prevention and early intervention activities and in the achievement of organisational goals.
- Demonstrate advanced level knowledge, expertise and skills in contemporary transcultural mental health prevention and early intervention practice, including ability to integrate relevant literature, research findings, and knowledge of contemporary mental health service delivery to improve delivery of evidence based mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention programs to CALD population groups.
Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).
