Exciting opportunity for a clinician working in the field of Child Youth Mental Health Services crisis service!

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Clinician (Level 3)
Remuneration: Dependent on qualifications 
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ436453
Salary:
Clinical Nurse Specialist (Grade 2): $2,107.14 – $2,176.30
Clinical Psychologist: $2,022.92 – $2,465.63 
Allied Health Professional (Level 3): $2,081.22 – $2,148.66 
               
Where you’ll be working
Mona Vale and Macquarie Hospital.

What you’ll be doing
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

Provide rapid crisis response to youth (12-24 years) in suicidal distress in the community, aiming to create a safe space in their environment and facilitates contact with services and people who can provide further support and address the cause of their crisis. 
The clinicians will provide recovery-oriented and trauma-informed clinical care for young people who are in suicidal crisis. Support may include crisis response, psycho-social support, safety planning, recovery/wellness planning, advocacy, and collaborative identification of community supports, risk assessment, care planning, referral to appropriate care settings, liaison with signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding under the NSW Mental Health Act (2007).

Clinicians will deliver support that aligns with the principles of step up/step down care. This includes making referrals to a range of community-based services for ongoing support if required (step down), or escalating concerns over consumer well-being to other acute or emergency services (Step Up).  Clinicians will provide ongoing service delivery and support enhancements of the service, including the addition of a Safehaven base location to meet young people.

The role will require after hours and weekend work. Clinicians will be working autonomously with minimal clinical direct supervision. They will be utilising extensive specialist knowledge on clinical care of a suicidal person with a focus on young people 12-24 years old, for providing independent judgement, solving problems and managing complex cases.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

1. Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
2. Recognised qualifications in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology or Occupational Therapy and registration with AHPRA or eligibility for membership of AASW. Demonstrated post graduate clinical experience in mental health. Psychologists require a relevant Masters degree, Allied Health require experience as a level 2 clinician or equivalent. Nursing require relevant post registration qualifications and at least 3 years’ experience working in the clinical area of their specified post-graduate qualifications or such other qualifications or relevant equivalent experience.
3. Contemporary current mental health, drug and alcohol clinical knowledge and clinical problem-solving ability with advanced practice skills and commitment to continuing professional development, with a focus on child, adolescent and family groups.
4. Willingness to engage in suicide prevention co-design, community of practice and education and training.
5. Demonstrated extensive specialist knowledge and recent post registration clinical experience in the management of suicidal persons and have an extensive knowledge of the NSW Mental Health Act (2007).
6. Computer literacy and demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills and sound administrative methods.
7. Demonstrated capacity to work independently and in multi-disciplinary teams with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
8. Current NSW Drivers Licence.

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For role related queries or questions contact Julie Wortans on [email protected] or 0439 415 712

All NSW Health workers are required to provide evidence of having received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine in accordance with the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (TGA).  Employees working in a clinical area or are required to attend clinical areas are considered category A and need to meet the requirements of the Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy Directive.

Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. 

Applications Close: 17 October 2023