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Recovery Clinician - BounceBack

Youth Support + Advocacy Service
  • Generous Salary Packaging
  • Employee Assistance Program available
  • Fixed Term 30/06/2023 potential for ongoing subject to funding
  • Full time (76 hours per fortnight)
  • Remuneration SCHCADS 6 level dependent on qualifications and experience + 10 % Employer superannuation

About us

Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) is one of Australia’s largest and most comprehensive, youth specific community service organisation that enables young people experiencing serious disadvantage to access the resources and support they require to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.YSAS is a Child Safe organisation. We actively promote the safety and wellbeing of young people, and are committed to protecting young people from harm or abuse who come into contact with and/or access our service. Applicants must undergo rigorous screening and recruitment processes, including providing evidence of current WWCC and National Police Check.

About the position

This service is supported by funding from South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network through the Australian Government’s PHN Program. The BounceBack Program is commissioned through the SEMPHN, and supports young people (12-25 years) with severe mental illness who have complex needs and will benefit from a flexible and responsive service offering therapy, case management and coordination of their care over an 6 – 9 month period of time. The program is colocated and integrated within a community of youth services as a part of the youth mental health stepped model of care at the headspace Frankston site.

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.

Key Selection Criteria will include:

  • Demonstrated experience in the planning and provision of mental health care including completion of mental health assessments and formulations, risk assessment, safety planning, psychoeducation and short term/brief interventions to young people, experiencing mental health issues, including current evidence-based approaches.
  • Demonstrated advanced skills in crisis management, problem solving and negotiation skills with young people, their family and other service providers.
  • Experience or high aptitude in working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and the delivery of care in an outreach setting.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the local youth mental health service system and the MH stepped model of care
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation as it relates to young people and mental health service delivery
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal, to build partnerships and effectively liaise, negotiate and provide consultation to other service providers and staff from other disciplines; and highly developed report writing skills inclusive of record keeping & data management.

For full details of the position, please view the position description attached below.

Please note

  • YSAS is a safe workplace and complies with laws set by the Victorian Government regarding the prevention and minimisation of spread of COVID.
  • Service delivery aspects of the role may be modified in order to comply with Victorian Government COVID-19 guidelines.
  • 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.
  • You must have Australian work rights to apply for this position

If you have the skills, experience and share our passion this is your opportunity to contribute to make a difference to the lives of seriously disadvantaged young people. Please apply via our employment page by clicking the "Apply Now" button.

Further Enquiries

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Sharon Schneider-Loos, Clinical Manager on 0397696419, regarding the role Recovery Clinician– 140_2021.

  • 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.

A position description is attached.

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