Title:  Senior Mental Health Clinican Grade 3

Senior Mental Health Clinician - Infant, Child, & Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) 

• Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist or Mental Health Nurse - ICYMHS Team 

• Grade 3 OT, SW, Clinical Psychologist or RPN4. 

• Box Hill Community Team 

• Ongoing Full Time,  Part Time 0.8 EFT and above considered. 

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

Box Hill Community Team is a dymanic team within the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS).  The Senior Mental Health Clinician will provide a key leadership role within the multidisciplinary Box Hill Community Team.

The Senior Mental Health Clinician will provide high quality mental health assessments, case management, and clinical interventions for children and young people, who present with mental health difficulties, and their families.

The Senior Clinician will work in partnership with the Team Leader to provide consistent and effective clinical and operational leadership.  We are looking for a clinician who enjoys supervising, teaching, and mentoring early career mental health clinicians.  The Senior Clinician will support the team to ensuring practice is in line with contemporary, evidenced based mental health models of care and current Victorian State Government initiatives, including the Recovery Framework. 

About you 

To be successful in this role, you will possess a minimum of five years post qualification clinical experience in child and youth mental health and:

• Current professional registration with AHPRA or AASW, or other relevant body.
• A demonstrated professional interest in working with children and young people, within the context of their families, who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties.
• Highly developed skills in interpersonal communication and multi-disciplinary teamwork.
• A strong commitment to high quality, evidenced based mental health care for infants, children, young people, and their families.
• The ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Proven ability and experience to provide clinical supervision.
• Excellent communication, organisational skills, and enjoyment of continuous learning.

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

Click here for Position Description

Contact Person: Nicky Harris

Contact Number: 03 9843 1200

Contact Email: nicole.harris@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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