The Accoras Team
Accoras has been delivering mental health and wellbeing services to South-East Queensland young people and families for well over 30 years. We deliver services from several locations and our Vision is 'Good Mental Health For All'. Alongside this vision we have a mantra of Changing Lives. Everything we do at Accoras is with a view on 'Changing Lives' - for our clients, participants and our own people. Find out more about us and the services we deliver here:
About the Role
As a Mental Health Clinician, you'll work within a shared-care model alongside Child, Youth and Family Practitioners. You will deliver interventions for children and adolescents (and their families) designed to improve their social skills and build their psychological and functional capacity, using a case management approach alongside clinical interventions to provide holistic support.
This is a full-time role working from our office located in Yarrabilba. You will provide outreach support in client homes and schools within the Logan/Beaudesert region, with all work-related travel reimbursed.
About You
To succeed in this role, you will be a qualified professional with a minimum of two years' work experience using case management approaches to support in the care planning, review and follow up coordination for program participants. This includes maintaining strong links with GPs, psychiatrists and allied health workers to coordinate clinical and non-clinical support services and working with social service providers and/or community services as necessary.
You will work collaboratively with caregivers, stakeholders and team members to provide mental health clinical care and coordination alongside psychosocial supports which contribute to the care planning and case management strategies which support the step up and step down process to access the most appropriate services.
You will also contribute/facilitate group learning through informal peer development such as peer supervision, under the guidance of the Accoras Leaders and work with the child or young person's family to develop plans and work to achieve them.
Other key responsibilities will include:
- Providing evidence-based, clinical and non-clinical, therapeutic interventions with participants experiencing complex to severe mental health conditions
- Supporting the program with clinical consultations alongside Child, Youth and Family Practitioners
- Undertaking clinical file reviews of young people connected to CPSP and provide recommendations and avenues of support
- Assessing and responding to risks to young people's safety, including domestic and family violence, bullying, suicide, child protection issues and mandatory reporting
- Ensuring timely reporting in line with program time frames and guidelines
Qualifications and Experience:
- Tertiary qualifications or above in Social Work, Human Services, Psychology or similar;
- Demonstrated experience in providing evidence-based clinical interventions to a case load of young people with complex to severe mental health problems/disorders;
- Well developed knowledge of child and adolescent mental health;
- Experience working from a strengths-based framework and utilising a client-centred and family-focused approach;
- Proven ability to work confidently with family systems, providing advice and guidance around basic parenting and age-appropriate development;
- Demonstrated appropriate decision and problem solving skills;
- Demonstrate the ability to build effective relationships and referral pathways with other service providers and key stakeholders;
Our clients have a variety of cultural backgrounds and life experiences, and we are committed to building a team that reflects and responds to this diversity. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a personal experience of mental illness, LGBTQIAP+ people and people with a disability.
What we offer:
- Above award rates with generous salary packaging options only available to employees of a not-for-profit organisation including Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free) and Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
- A flexible workplace that accommodates preferences for an eight or nine day fortnight
- Additional paid leave over Christmas and on your birthday, and a paid volunteer day each year
- Leave loading at 17.5%
- Portable Long Service Leave
- Supportive and collaborative team setting
- Professional development, training and regular clinical supervision and mentoring
To Apply
Please click on the Apply Now button and follow the prompts to upload your résumé and cover letter, outlining your suitability against the responsibilities of the role.
📌 Mental Health Clinician
🏢 Accoras
📍 Yarrabilba