Access Team Clinican - Melbourne, Australia - Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health

Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health

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Melbourne, Australia

2 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Primary Clinical Services Melbourne Part-time
16/6/202- Glenroy location | Close to public transport

Part time ongoing position available | (0.8 FTE)
Access to NFP salary packaging | Join a multidisciplinary team

Your new job

The Access Team Clinician will directly engage, assess, and coordinate the care for young people access headspace services and participate in community awareness raising activities to promote early help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems in young people.

Reporting to the Clinical Services Manager, you will:

Work under the direction of the Clinical Services Manager to provide comprehensive youth friendly mental health services.
Provide a comprehensive intake service to young people, community members and professionals seeking services.
Conduct initial assessments with young people and their families/carers, using the agreed headspace psychosocial assessment tool, including AOD screening and harm minimisation and risk assessment as required.
Promote service integration and foster collaboration of care within the service and with external services as needed.

What you'll need
You are passionate, energetic and determined to make a difference to health and wellbeing outcomes for young people.

The following criteria must be met for consideration for this position:

Approved tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing) and full/provisional general registration with AHPRA or eligibility for AASW.
Experience in the provision of mental health care, including completion of mental health assessments; risk assessment and crisis intervention/safety planning; psychoeducation and shortterm/brief interventions to young people experiencing mental health and/or substance use problems.
Have experience or knowledge of working with young people between 12 to 25 years of age, including an understanding of their developmental stages and transitions.

What you'll get in return

Salary between $71,128 $88,109 pro rata commensurate with skills and experience + 10.5% super + NFP salary packaging up to $15,900.
Ability to purchase additional leave; access to EAP; generous Parental Leave Scheme.
Opportunity to contribute to the success of a purpose driven organisation.
Flexible working culture

Orygen - leading the revolution
Imagine a future with unlimited potential. A future where every young person enjoys optimal mental health as they grow into adulthood. At Orygen, this is our life's work, because we passionately believe it's what all young people deserve.
Every step of the way, young people and families are at the heart of everything we do. Always.
Through world-leading research that creates change. Through pioneering reform that delivers real-world practical solutions.
At Orygen, that's the future we're creating right now. To do it, we have revolution in mind.
Join the revolution

For more information and to review the position description, please follow the link

Orygen is a childsafe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and wellbeing of all young people and embedding safeguarding practices into all our programs and services._

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