Team Leader Peel Youth Mental Health Navigation
360 Health + Community is looking to welcomeTeam Leader for our Peel Youth Mental Health Navigation and Coordination!
360 Health + Community is a person-centered community health service providing care and support to people when, where and how they need it most. Our teams deliver programs across Western Australia to help body and mind including in our role as lead agency for three headspace centres along the beautiful coastline south of Perth in Fremantle, Rockingham and Mandurah. This opportunity is for a clinically minded professional to join our leadership team in the position of Centre Manager at headspace Rockingham.
Our youth participants (12-25 years of age) encompass a rich range of diversities – culture, language, religion, CaLD, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, gender, sexuality, living circumstance, socio-economic status, educational and economic participation, and health status – and can include those with guardians, administrators, and child protection and family services.
Collaboration, Compassion, Integrity and Accountability are the values360 Health + Community lives by in supporting the mental and physical wellbeing of the people we serve. They are the foundation of how we support all our team members in supporting and delivering services to the community.
About the role – Team Leader
The Team Leader of the Peel Youth Mental Health Navigation and Coordination Service (PYMHNCS) will lead a multidisciplinary team of psychosocial service navigators supporting young people aged 12–25 experiencing mental health conditions and biopsychosocial complexities. This role ensures the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care through biopsychosocial assessments, recovery planning, and coordinated service navigation. The Team Leader will also foster integration with the Wandjoo Gateway service network and contribute to systemic improvements in youth mental health care across the region.
Key aspects of this role:
* Building and leading a PYMHNCS team that delivers effective navigation and coordination of services for youth in the Peel and Serpentine/Jarrahdale area.
* Facilitating the design and use of recovery plans, based on the biopsychosocial needs of youth, which are trauma informed, culturally appropriate, and reduce the 're-telling' burden on the participant.
* Contributing to the effectiveness and improvement of the Wandjoo Gateway service model by modelling best practices, advocating for and collaborating on change and improvement opportunities, and incorporating the views and feedback form youth using the service.
* Enhancing both the youth participants' development of their own agency and the Wandjoo Gateway service providers responsiveness to the biopsychosocial needs of youth.
What we are looking for / being successful in the role, you will have:
* Tertiary qualification (Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, or Nursing) – with corresponding Mental Health Accreditation.
* Minimum 5 years' experience in the mental health or community service sector(s) working with clients who have complex needs.
* Experience in biopsychosocial assessment and recovery planning and the identification and assessment of risk working with clients having complex needs.
* Proven ability to lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team working with youth.
* Strong stakeholder network development and management skills.
* Sound verbal, written communication, and negotiation skills.
* A current full drivers' license (essential), access to a roadworthy and comprehensively insured motor vehicle, National Police Clearance and Working with Children Check.
360 Health + Community offers:
* Salary packaging for tax free income of $18,550 per year
* Birthday and wellness leave.
* Practice supervision, peer support, professional development.
* Working in a multidisciplinary team environment.
* Journey insurance cover for your daily commute
The role on offer is full-time and fixed-term to 30 June 2027. The base of operations will be at our Mandurah office.
Please contact Wintana Reda on 0428735*** for a confidential discussion.
Click apply to submit your application. Please include your resume and a cover letter responding to the success factors listed above.
Shortlisting and interviews will commence immediately and the position will close once filled. Please apply as soon as possible.
360 Health + Community is an Equal Opportunity Employer who values and encourages diversity within its workforce.
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