Job Title: Senior Youth Worker
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Mental Health Senior Youth Worker to join our team on a permanent part-time basis. As a key member of our youth mental health service, you will provide direct outreach-based assistance and support to clients, enabling them to achieve their goals as established by their care plan.
The role will work alongside clinicians to provide shared care support, holding a caseload of your own with support from the team. You will work therapeutically with young people, providing case management support, and assist the mental health team with day-to-day client support and case management, stakeholder liaison, administration, quality assurance, and growth of the program.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide high-level direct psychosocial support and case management to young people in collaboration with families, using evidence-based frameworks of practice.
* Support clients to develop goals and life skills, achieving developmental and personal goals.
* Facilitate opportunities for client growth by creating a safe environment and providing appropriate resources.
* Support and implement care plans as guided by the young person and clinicians.
* Enhance care plan outcomes through 1-1 psycho-social support, using evidence-based frameworks of practice such as DBT and ACT.
* Work collaboratively within the Mental Health Services program, with an outcome focus.
* Provide direct psychosocial support, engage in liaison and coordination of additional client support outside the service, and for on-referral.
* Ensure all client case noting data and statistics are effectively recorded into the client records system.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Minimum Cert IV in Mental Health or Youth Work or Bachelor of Social Work or Psychology.
* Training or experience in using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) with young people is preferable but not essential.
* Demonstrated experience providing high-level 1-1 support to young people experiencing mental health issues and/or complex psychosocial challenges.
* Sound knowledge of mental health and experience working with young people who have mental health difficulties.
* Excellent ability to demonstrate professional boundaries, empathy, dignity, respect, inclusion, non-judgment, empowerment, confidentiality, and strengths-based practice.
* Ability to think creatively, be self-reflective, and use initiative to work individually and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Ability to work in an outreach capacity and network across government and community sectors.
* Excellent written and computer skills for accurate documentation of plans, case notes, data, and reports, and sound experience using client record management systems.
Benefits:
* Salary packaging.
* Employee Assistance Program.
* Ongoing training and development opportunities.
* Travel club membership and discounted health insurance.
For more information about this opportunity, please contact us directly.