• Full time position
• First Nations People, LGBTIQA+ people, people with
  disability, people of color, public housing residents or people with a lived
  experience are encouraged to apply.
• DSS is committed to child safety and strictly adheres to the
  Reportable Conduct Scheme for organisations. The safeguarding and wellbeing of
  our clients is our core focus. All staff must undergo thorough recruitment
  process including screening and providing evidence of current Working With
  Children Check and National Police Check.

About the role

Drummond Street Services (DS) is
working in partnership with Neami National and Uniting to establish a Mental
Health and Wellbeing Service (MH&WS) in the Whittlesea region. The Service
is an innovative solution to deliver on the compelling vision outlined through
the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health
System. Offering a ‘no wrong door’ approach, the service will support members
of the community to be connected to the right support, providing a holistic
approach to care, addressing a range of social, physical, and emotional needs.
The service will have a strong focus on lived experience and will support a
high engagement, multi-disciplinary team model.

This role is
responsible for providing high quality services to consumers and their families
experiencing mental health crisis presenting to the Whittlesea Local Mental
Health & Wellbeing Service. As a qualified Family Practitioner, you will
draw on your discipline skills, engage with consumers, family/friends/carers,
other practitioners, the consumer’s treatment team and Lived Experience staff
to provide high quality assessments and interventions aimed at improving mental
health outcomes for consumers and their families accessing the Local Mental
Health & Wellbeing Service. This position will have a strong emphasis on preparing
the consumer and their family to transition home. This work will focus on clinical
assessment and collaborative care planning.

Your responsibilities

• Engage and develop trusting and professional relationships
  with consumers and their families/friends/carers
• Provide brief and detailed whole of family assessment and collaborative
  care plans to consumers and their families. The objective of Exit Planning is
  to support families to help minimise the risk of relapse of the consumers
  following leaving
• Engage consumers and their families, using a strengths-based
  approach to complete a mental health status measurement and a needs assessment.
• Providing support through a range of means, including the
  provision of outreach and centre-based activities.
• Work within a holistic framework taking into account the needs
  of the consumers, family, carers and other members of the community in order to
  ensure tangible outcomes 

About you 

• Demonstrated ability to provide counselling and therapeutic
  interventions with positive outcomes for individuals and families
• Highly skilled and experienced family counsellor/
  practitioner
• Demonstrated capacity to work creatively, show initiative,
  contribute ideas and be active in a supportive team environment in an agency
  working to support individual and family relationships
• Cultural and diversity humility

Selection Criteria, all of the following must be addressed in your application
to be considered.

Essential

• Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Family Therapy or Psychology
  and further training in relation to families work
• A minimum of three years’ experience in the family services
  and/or mental health sectors
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of a range of
  therapeutic approaches for individuals, couples, families
• Demonstrated experience with providing supportive
  counselling and case work that supports families with multiple and complex
  needs such as mental health, family violence, AOD issues
• Demonstrated understanding of the needs, issues and
  sensitivities of people from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal, LGBTIQ
  and culturally and linguistically diverse people and communities
• A valid and current Australian Driver License and access to personal
  vehicle

Application process

• Applications close at midnight on Sunday 27th November 2022
• All applications will be directed to our careers portal – Family
  Practitioner – Whittlesea
• All applicants must include a resume with a cover letter
  addressing all the key selection criteria for the position

Please contact Silvana Arcifa on 03 9663 6733 or [email protected] to discuss
your application.