Senior Mental Health Clinician - Footscray, Australia - Western Health

    Western Health
    Western Health Footscray, Australia

    2 weeks ago

    western health background
    Temporary Part time
    Description

    Position Summary

    Senior Mental Health Clinician

    Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Service (CAPS)

  • Western Health is delivering mental health service to the young people in the western suburbs of Melbourne
  • Based at Sunshine Hospital and Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital
  • Part time (0.8 FTE) - Maternity Leave cover until March 2025
  • The Sunshine Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Service:

  • Consultation-liaison model
  • Supervision and education to paediatric and mental health clinicians associated with Sunshine Hospital
  • Continued growth of a paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry outpatient service
  • Support children and adolescents with comorbid mental and physical illness who typically do not meet threshold for a tertiary child and adolescent mental health service
  • Your New Role:

  • Build strategic relationships with key stakeholders
  • Assess young people for mental health needs and provide clinical and therapeutic support
  • Provide support to family and carers
  • Co-ordinate and deliver new quality initiatives in collaboration with consumers and carers
  • Be the driver of the development of a leading-edge service models