Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs
Reference: 2856
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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 the Central Youth Community Team
The Central Youth Community Team (CYCT) is one of several community outpatient teams within the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). It is a multi-disciplinary team that offers individual and group assessment, treatment, consultations, and a clinical case management service to young people with a variety of complex and severe mental illnesses and/or disorders.
CYCT primarily provides services to young people aged 12-25 in the ICYMHS catchment areas of Banyule and Nillumbik. The service currently operates within business hours, with a view to expand operating hours in the future to improve accessibility in line with Royal Commission recommendations.
About the role
The Senior Mental Health Clinician position is primarily a community case manager role, providing high quality, expert clinical care and case management to children, young people and their families referred to CYCT, as allocated by the Team Manager.
As a senior member of the team and ICYMHS, you will assist and support the Team Leader/Consultants in their leadership responsibilities. You will actively model positive behaviours in line with organisational values to support a healthy, productive and innovative team/ICYMHS culture that are concerned with health, wellbeing and safety for consumers, carers, communities and staff.
It is expected that you will work closely with the CYCT multidisciplinary team, under the direction of the Program Manager, Team Leader, and the Consultant Psychiatrist, to provide holistic and recovery-orientated case management to young people, their families or other supports, who are accessing the service. The team works collaboratively in practice and draws on a strong understanding of systems approaches and frameworks to complex care and case management.
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/have:
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:
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 the 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: Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach at [email protected].
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Wednesday 25 June 2025