Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Clinician (Level 1/2)
Remuneration: dependent on qualifications
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ426300
Salary (per week):
Allied Health Professional (Level 1/2): $1,292.52 – $1,872.59
Psychologist: $1,365.31 – $2,029.47
Registered Midwife/Registered Nurse: $1,290.90 – $1,812.40
Where you’ll be working
Coral Tree Family Service – Macquarie Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District.
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.
Coral Tree Family Service is a tertiary referral service for children with mental health problems. The service provides treatment to referred children in the context of their family and conceptualises the family as the unit of treatment. Families come from across NSW for planned 4 night stays with up to 3 families at a time being in residence. Family Workers staff the residential family admissions program and provide the crucial residential ‘in situ’ mental health interventions that make our service unique. Family workers act as agents of change, seeking to find opportunities for improved interactions in the ‘here and now’ of family life. A main focus is on empowering parents/carers to find better ways of helping the children in their care. A respectful partnership with all family members is an essential prerequisite to achieving positive outcomes. The role involves care coordination throughout a families contact with the service by liaising with allocated families and their referrers. This central role involves preparing families for admission, organising the care required during their stay, providing therapeutic interventions with other members of the team during the admission, reporting back to referring agents following the stay, and providing some telephone follow up support to the family.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- 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.
- Recognised qualifications as a Psychologist, Registered Nurse, or Occupational Therapist with current registration through the relevant Professional Board of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, or eligibility for Membership for Social Workers with the AASW.
- Post qualification experience that demonstrates the ability to provide a range of mental health interventions to children with severe emotional and behavioural problems.
- Post qualification experience that demonstrates the ability to provide a range of therapeutic interventions aimed at helping and assisting families with mental health and relationship difficulties.
- Demonstrated ability to manage clients presenting with a range of challenging behaviours.
- Demonstrated sound working knowledge of Child Protection Legislation.
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For role related queries or questions contact Cathryn Mcelroy on [email protected] or 02 8877 4299
All NSW Health workers are required to have two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, as defined by NSW Health. Employees working in a clinical area or are required to attend clinical areas are considered category A. Category A positions are required to provide evidence of having received three doses of COVID-19 vaccine in accordance with the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (TGA) and 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: 04 September 2023