Senior Mental Health Clinician- Adolescent Intensive Management Service (AIMS)

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• Open to: Grade 3 Occupational Therapist/Psychologist/Social Worker/Speech Pathologist, and   

• Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses   

• Permanent part time (40 hours per week with ADO every 4 weeks)   

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 state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) team  

The AIM team at Austin Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS) is a multi-disciplinary team that provides an intensive outreach service to vulnerable and at-risk 12–18-year-old adolescents who live in complex family and systemic circumstances. Young people supported by AIM require enhanced treatment and a flexible approach. Typically, the young people seen by AIM are not able to attend office-based assessment or treatment and have several other care systems involved.  

The systemic framework of the service means that team members work to empower young people and their support networks to think about their difficulties in a creative way and identify flexible solutions to mental health problems. The AIM team also work collaboratively with their colleagues from the Youth Brief Intervention Service, who provide systemic and family-oriented brief interventions to young people and their families.  

The ICYMHS service is expanding over the next year to incorporate 18-25 years in all its programs.  

About the role  

As a Senior Mental Health Clinician, you will primarily provide an intensive outreach mental health service to high-risk young people aged 12-18 years, as well as their families and wider service systems within the Austin ICYMHS catchment.  You'll work collaboratively with AIM clinicians and broader ICYMHS staff and teams, to support young people who find it difficult to engage in office-based services and are at risk of harm.  

A regular day will see you:  

• Deliver high quality care for a small clinical caseload, as well as consultation and liaison with organisations  

• Provide direct service in the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of young people and families utilising individual outreach approaches, selected treatment modalities suitable for engaging young people in their recovery, which may include mental health promotion and other professional development/capacity building activities  

• Complete a high standard of accurate and timely clinical and operational documentation and data entry in a timely and efficient manner, and in accordance with ICYMHS standards of documentation and relevant professional/mental health sector statutory requirements  

About you  

You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work.  You'll have strong organisational and time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.  

To be successful in this role you will bring with you:  

• A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology) and current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, with minimum years of clinical experience for a senior role according to the Enterprise Agreement, specific to experience with children and young people within a tertiary mental health setting.  

• Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual, outreach and carer-focused clinical services  

• Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective  

• Experience in developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems 

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 

• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program 

• Mentoring and career development opportunities 

• Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists 

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. 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 or have questions about this opportunity, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager – Rowan Chipchase rowan.chipchase@austin.org.au 

interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details. 

Application closing date:  3 January 2024