About the Accoras Team

Accoras has been delivering mental health and wellbeing services to South-East Queensland young people and families for 30 years. Accoras operates headspace Inala in a lead agency capacity, providing early intervention and support to young people in the areas of primary health, mental health, drug and alcohol, and vocation and education supports.

Working at Accoras

In a recent survey, our people rated the team culture, management capability and quality of services provided as the top 3 things they like about Accoras, highlighting a genuine care for our people and our clients. In October 2022, Accoras was also honoured to receive the Earle Duus Award in the 2022 QLD Mental Health Awards, recognising the contributions our team makes to people living with mental illness.

The Role

Child, Youth & Family Practitioner

The Commonwealth Psychosocial Support Program (CPSP) provides free support for 7-17 year-olds living with, or at risk of, a complex mental illness who are not eligible for NDIS. The CPSP Program provides the opportunity for young people and their families and significant relationships to:

• Collaborate with skilled practitioners
• Explore strategies to strengthen social skills, friendships and family connections
• Address daily living needs and functioning
• Improve physical wellbeing, including exercise and a healthy routine
• Create a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships
• Develop confidence and resilience
• Manage drug and alcohol addictions, assist with managing finances, accommodation and employment or education goals

Key responsibilities will include:

• Flexibility to engage children and young people in their home or school environment
• Utilise relevant counselling techniques in sessions to build children and young people and their support network’s capacity to identify and respond to their own needs
• Develop and maintain trust and strong relationships with children, young people and their families/significant relationships
• Undertake assessments and develop collaborative, holistic action and intervention plans
• Provide flexible and practical ongoing intervention, advice and support
• Engage in safety planning and risk management
• Maintain appropriate files and records to facilitate good case coordination and accountability
• Liaise and collaborate with a range of service providers

This is a Full-Time Permanent position. Working from our office located in Yarrabilba, you will provide outreach support in client homes and schools within the Logan/Beaudesert region, with all work-related travel reimbursed.

Qualifications & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in allied health (e.g. social work, human services, psychology or mental health occupational therapy)
• Preference for a minimum 1-2 year's experience with working directly with children and adolescents aged 7 - 17 years in a therapeutic or case coordination setting;
• The ability to work collaboratively with caregivers, stakeholders and team members to build on functional psychosocial capacity domains of children and young people;
• Proficient in safety planning and conducting mental health assessments, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement in these areas to better support individuals in therapeutic intervention
• Relevant case management experience;
• Good understanding of child and adolescent development and mental health;
• Well-developed assessment and intervention skills with children and adolescents who may have multiple needs and mental health concerns;
• The ability to think ‘outside the box’ with regards to therapeutic engagement activities;
• A client-centred approach, with the ability to work from a strengths-based framework;
• Excellent case planning and formulation abilities, supported by well documented case notes;
• Good problem solving, organisation and prioritising skills; and
• A current driver’s licence and the ability to obtain a Working with Children check and successful police history check

Our clients have a variety of cultural backgrounds and life experiences, and we are committed to building a team that reflects and responds to this diversity. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a personal experience of mental illness, LGBTQIAP+ people and people with a disability.

What we offer:

• Above award rates with generous salary packaging options only available to employees of a not-for-profit organisation including Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free!!) and Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
• A flexible workplace that accommodates preferences for an eight or nine day fortnight
• Additional paid leave over Christmas and on your birthday, and a paid volunteer day each year
• Leave loading at 17.5%
• Portable Long Service Leave
• Free On-site parking
• SWAG Store Benefits - access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Professional development, training and regular clinical supervision and mentoring