Youth Mental Health Hospital in the Home

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of young people and their families?  Would you like to work in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, providing intensive mental health care within a young person’s home? Then come join our new Youth Mental Health Hospital in the Home (Y-HiTH) service!

The CAMHS Y-HiTH is a new service for the North West region, based in Devonport.

Our aim is to support young people (16–24-year-old) who maybe experiencing an acute episode of mental illness to receive treatment in their home and within the community, rather than being admitted to an inpatient mental health unit, or as part of a discharge plan from hospital. 

The Y-HiTH team will work with the young person and their family/significant others to develop an individual treatment plan that supports their recovery.  With multiple home visits occurring everyday and additional support via telephone and telehealth, young people will receive comparable treatment from Y-HiTH as they would from an inpatient admission. 

The role:

The Family/Carer Peer Worker is a direct support role from the perspective of the family/carer’s personal experience of supporting individuals with mental ill-health. The Family/Carer Peer Worker will:

• Uphold the Lived Experience values and principles to encourage a recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based approach to all aspects of work.
• Use personal experience to support the families and carers of public mental health services’ consumers/clients/patients, to maintain their health and wellbeing while caring for those with mental illness.
• Work positively and collaboratively with families and carers to identify supports to facilitate meaningful recoveries for the family and to foster hope.
• Work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team to deliver outcomes in alignment with a mental health recovery framework.

Note: – Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.

Position Features:

• Hospital in the Home (HiTH) services are highly mobile outreach teams providing treatment in the consumer’s home.
• Regular travel within the region will be a requirement of this role.

Details of Appointment

Permanent, part time, day worker position working 38 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible.

*notwithstanding hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant

• Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.

Salary: $63,336 to $66,917 + 11% superannuation 

• Salary range is in accordance with Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022

Location: Burnie 

Eligibility:

Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:

1. Working With Children Registration 
2. Current Driver’s Licence

*Registration/licences that are essential requirements of this role must remain current and valid at all times whilst employed in this role and the status of these may be checked at any time during employment. It is the employee’s responsibility to ensure that registration/licences remain current and to advise the Employer if their circumstances change. This includes notifying the Employer if a registration/licence is revoked, cancelled or has its conditions altered.

Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:

1. Experience of supporting someone (family or friend) through mental health challenges, service use, periods of healing/personal recovery
2. Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, or willingness to work towards same

Features:   

The Head of the State Service has determined that the person nominated for this job is to satisfy a pre‑employment check before taking up the appointment, on promotion or transfer. The following checks are to be conducted:

1. Conviction checks in the following areas:

1. crimes of violence
2. sex related offences
3. serious drug offences
4. crimes involving dishonesty
5. serious traffic offences 

1. Identification check
2. Disciplinary action in previous employment check.

Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents

We encourage you to review the Applicant Guide, Statement of Duties, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and selection criteria.

Statement of Duties

• Generic Family-Carer Peer Worker HSO5 WWCR (July 2023) CSU.pdf
• Generic Family-Carer Peer Worker HSO5 WWCR (July 2023) CSU.docx

Applicant Guide

• Department of Health – Applicant Guide June 22.pdf
• Department of Health – Applicant Guide June 22.docx

How to Apply

Apply Online.  Please click the “Apply” button on this screen.  This ensures important questions about you are answered. 

You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 page application detailing your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties.

Please note:

• We do not require a separate statement addressing the selection criteria in the Statement of Duties.
• All attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
• Referee details are submitted as part of the online application so make sure you have the contact details of two referees before applying.

For more information (Contact Officer)

Dion Butler

Position: Team Leader – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Phone:  0412 364 453
E-mail: [email protected]

Please note applications close 15 October 2023 at 11:55PM

Important information

The email account you provide when submitting job applications will be used in correspondence to you.  It is important that this is kept up to date and monitored regularly.

To update your email address (or contact number), log in to www.jobs.tas.gov.au and look for “Existing applicant login” where you can update your details

The Department of Health values workforce diversity and recognises the value each person offers which is shaped by their unique characteristics, background, experiences, knowledge, skills, values and perspectives.