Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs
Reference: 4790
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast 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 12–25-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 a number of 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.
About the role
The Team Leader is responsible for the day-to-day clinical and operational functioning and leadership of the AIM team, with support from the team Consultant Psychiatrist and Program Manager. The role will include workload management, support of staff in clinical decision making, orientation and retention, along with case management responsibilities.
Together with the Program Manager they will contribute to the development of clinical and operational systems within the team. The team leader will provide active service delivery carrying a case load.
The incumbent will contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of enhancements to the model of care for youth ensuring practice is in line with contemporary evidenced based mental health models of care and current Victorian initiatives including the Recovery Framework.
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:
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. 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: 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: Sunday 8 March 2026
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. While this is not an Identified position, we actively welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as a significant proportion of our clients identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We are committed to fostering a culturally safe and inclusive workplace and delivering culturally safe services to the community.