Senior Clinician & Team Leader YPARC
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About YPARC (Youth Prevention and Recovery Centre)
YPARC is a sub-acute Youth residential service, that provides recovery focused and evidenced-based mental health care. The service is co-run with Austin and MIND as a non-clinical service provider, in a model that combines developmentally appropriate clinical, recovery based and peer work. A YPARC stay is a short, intense period of support in the individual’s recovery journey of around 2 - 4 weeks’ duration.
The phases of care in YPARC are - ‘step-up’ – support for young people experiencing a first episode or a deterioration of their mental health, and ‘step-down’ – support and reconnection to home and community for the young person after a psychiatric inpatient admission.
The YPARC:
- Provides opportunities for care in the least intrusive and restrictive way.
- Supports people to make and participate in decisions about their assessment, treatments, and recovery.
- Protects individuals’ rights, dignity, and autonomy.
- Provides holistic care and support options that are responsive to individual.
- Support carers in the decisions about treatment and care.
About the role
The Team Leader in collaboration with Austin Program Manager, Consultant Psychiatrist and Mind Program Manager, will provide support in operational and clinical leadership at the YPARC. You will lead a multidisciplinary team ensuring a safe and therapeutic milieu on a rostered shift work basis and contribute to specialist therapeutic knowledge and skill in providing recovery orientated practice and trauma-informed care to young people, their families, and their care systems.
A regular day will see you:
- Monitor and lead the ongoing delivery and improvement of a high standard of evidence-based care to young people aged 16- 25 years of age.
- Provide leadership and direction to the team to ensure that the day-to-day operations are undertaken to provide highest quality services to clients
- Provide direct support to young people, families and carers through the development of trusting relationships, the development of person-centred plans including strengths-based assessments and individual recovery plans, collaboration with others in the client’s life, including relevant service providers; and advocacy and referral
- Provide psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions to young people at the YPARC
- Facilitate group programs within the YPARC
- Contribute your knowledge and skill set within the multidisciplinary team at care meetings and within care systems
- Coordinate referrals and admissions of Young People to the YPARC
- Liaise with relevant community agencies, provide secondary consultation, training and promote the service to wider community
About you
If you are passionate about working with Young People, have knowledge and experience in the use of current theoretical approaches and best practice and enjoy being part of a multidisciplinary team and shaping the future of an innovative mental health team, we are keen for you to join us!
The successful candidate will be tertiary qualified in Nursing, Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapy or other related discipline have demonstrated knowledge of the mental health, youth and community sector service system, proven experience working with Young People and their families and Carers,
You’ll further bring with you:
- Demonstrated skills and experience in working with young people with mental health issues and associated complex needs, and with their families and carers.
- Demonstrated capacity to effectively lead, coach and develop a team to achieve best quality service outcomes for Young People.
- Experience in working therapeutically and systemically with young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations.
- Advanced clinical skills in managing young people at risk, including suicide and self-harm risks
- Demonstrated understanding of professional frameworks, theories, and practices as they relate to children and families and mental health.
- Demonstrated ability and knowledge of a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for both individuals and groups.
- Capacity to provide supervision and/or mentoring to other staff.
- Willingness and ability to work flexible hours which may include outside business hours.
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Sue Wells, Divisional Manager ICYMHS, Sue.Wells@austin.org.au
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Sunday 20 July 2025
