• Manage and inspire a team to deliver positive recovery-orientated supports to young people with complex mental health challenges
• Fixed Term, Part time (30.4 hours/week)
• Eastern Suburbs Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the role

The Keep Embracing Your Success (KEYS) provides a multidisciplinary program for young people aged 12-17 years who are experiencing highly complex emotional and behavioural challenges due to mental health concern and adversity and currently in, or are likely to be placed in, out-of-home-care (OOHC). KEYS East is a partnership between MacKillop Family Services, Mind Australia, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) and Youth Support & Advocacy Service (YSAS), delivering an innovative and transitional model across a 12 month placement and 6-months outreach. Taking a new approach to working with highly vulnerable young people in OOHC who exhibit complex, risky and challenging behaviours, staff are supported to utilise holistic, trauma-informed therapeutic approaches to promote individual wellbeing and recovery. Young people receive a range of supports and therapeutic interventions, assisting with the transition towards home-based care or directly to independent living.

We are seeking an experienced, high performing Senior Mental Health Clinician for a fixed term, full time opportunity to work in the Eastern suburbs area. You will hold a case load of young people and work closely with the KEYS psychiatrist and consortium’s multidisciplinary team in the development and delivery of comprehensive support plans. You will also provide management and leadership of Mind’s service input into the KEYS East program. You will provide strong leadership, direct all aspects of Mind’s program and ensure a high standard of service delivery to support young people work towards recovery goals and enjoy a positive future. The Manager – Mental Health Clinician will also be accountable for staff management and achievement of service performance and budget targets.

Key responsibilities

• Lead delivery of high quality services and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
• Support trauma informed assessment, formulation and delivery of plan with young people to support their return to their community and enjoy a meaningful life through a strength-focused, staged approach to recovery.
• Coach and mentor effective practice to multidisciplinary team of staff working with young people, provide support to families and carers, and plan and deliver group work.
• Guide a high performing team by engaging staff, setting clear direction and performance expectations.
• Manage the day-to-day operations including planning budget expenditure and delivery of agreed service performance targets.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary degree qualifications in Mental Health, Social Work, Allied Health, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology or other health related field as designated by Mind
• Proven experience in Youth Work, Community Services, Mental Health, Disability, Social Welfare, Housing or Healthcare or Government sectors is required.
• Expertise working with young people with mental health issues, highly complex needs and emotional/behavioural difficulties, and interacting with families and carers.
• Significant experience in implementing therapeutic, recovery-oriented frameworks and practices including risk mitigation, trauma informed care and family inclusive practice.

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.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 497134. Please contact the person below for more information.

Emilio Florio – Acting General Manager, Eastern Region - [email protected].

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at [email protected].

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.