Title:  Senior Clinician Specialist Child Team

Senior Clinician Outer East Specialist Child Team

• Temporary full time maternity leave replacement until Jan 2025
• Ringwood | Close to public transports and shops
• Supportive and dynamic team, professional development opportunities

Eastern Health
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan – which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

About the role

Eastern Health’s Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) is one of thirteen specialist mental health and wellbeing services in Victoria providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and community based multidisciplinary teams for infants, children and young people up to the age of 25 years and experiencing significant mental health or emotional, behavioural and/or developmental challenges, and their families. 

The Outer East Specialist Child Team works to improve the outcomes for infants and children, 0-12 years, and their families, experiencing significant emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties, alongside a range of vulnerabilities, including trauma and family violence. As a Senior Clinician, you will manage a designated caseload providing mental health assessment and intervention for infants and children under 12 years of age, and their families.   Additionally, you will have a key role in supporting the Team Leader and Team Consultant, to develop and maintain a positive team culture, working collaboratively to deliver high quality clinical care and improved health and wellbeing outcomes for referred children and their families.  The provision of supervision and mentoring of early career clinicians will be an important additional aspect of the role.  You will also provide discipline specific assessment and interventions, where required.  

About you 
To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Current Clinical Psychology, Occupational Therapy or Registrered Psychiatric Nurse registration with AHPRA; for Social Work, eligibility for membership of AASW 

• Clinical expertise and experience in infant and child mental health 

• A strong commitment to high quality care 

• The ability to work as part of a diverse team 

• Excellent communication and organisational skills 

• Experience in parent work and family therapy  

• Post Graduate qualifications in Family Therapy or Child Psychotherapy is highly desirable  

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.  An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

What we offer

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!

• Diverse and engaging career opportunities
• Friendly & supportive team
• Flexible working hours
• Salary packaging options
• Career progression in our teaching hospitals

Next Steps
Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates.

Good to know:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application

Please click here for Position Description

Contact Person: Felicity Brown

Contact Number: 0402 298 987

Contact Email: felicity.brown@easternhealth.org.au

Need help submitting your application?

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

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