Mental Health Team Leaders - Multiple Locations - Brisbane - Rockhampton
* Key clinical and team leadership opportunity.
* Leave your day at the door to support your work life balance.
* Be part of a new mental health model offering career-defining experience
This busy, new clinical leadership role in our Correctional Centres is the perfect opportunity for a senior‐level clinician with team leadership experience, or an experienced senior clinician ready to take the next step into a leadership role. QCS is undergoing a period of change and expanding their psychology workforce and service model to include social workers and occupational therapists. This hands‐on role is in an operationally and culturally diverse environment working to improve rehabilitative outcomes and reduce recidivism. You will manage the new multi‐disciplinary service model and lead your team to provide services that impact and help shape lives through evidence‐based mental health care.
Your clinical knowledge and skills combined with your leadership are key to ensuring delivery of critical mental health services are of a high quality and comply with QCS protocols.
Building partnerships and stakeholder relationships is integral to this role and will require you to possess excellent interpersonal and engagement skills.
If this role is of interest, it's time to get your application ready.
So why choose us?
* Re‐designed service model: QCS is introducing new roles and disciplines to provide mental health services, so be one of the first to embed this role and make it a success.
* Clinical expertise: operate independently to provide clinical services, use your clinical reasoning and professional judgement to manage complex situations and presentations.
* Lead with influence: you can actively role‐model, promote and support a high‐performing culture and team.
* Build capability: your experience and feedback on delivery of assessments and interventions can help uplift the team capability and knowledge.
* Solutions focused: strong analytical and problem‐solving skills, complemented by your resilience, to respond to the role dynamics and changing priorities.
About you
* Advanced level demonstrated experience providing clinical services of a complex nature.
* Able to provide clinical practice supervision to less experienced clinicians.
* High‐calibre interpersonal and communication skills to build effective and trusted relationships within and across teams and stakeholders.
* Thorough understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities and professional accountabilities of your discipline.
* Highly developed written communication skills, able to produce excellent quality professional reports and case notes.
* Team leadership and management including knowledge of and ability to implement human resources practices.
* Strong time management, organisational and planning strengths to pre‐empt service delivery and emerging priorities.
Mandatory Requirements
* Tertiary qualifications in Psychology and membership with APHRA; or
* Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy or Social Work, with eligibility for membership or registration with AHPRA and/or AASW; C Class Driver's Licence; and
* Post‐graduate qualifications in mental health would be highly regarded.
Applications remain current for 12 months. Suitable applicants from this process may also be considered for a suitability pool for subsequent identical or similar vacancies that occur within 12 months of the closing date of this advertisement which may include vacancies within other centres.
We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. If you have a health condition, disability, or cultural or linguistic background that requires adjustments, please advise our Talent Acquisition team so we can support you to participate equitably throughout the recruitment process.
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