Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.

• Full-time (with flexible ADO), 18-months Fixed Term position
• Based in Moorabbin
• Recently graduated: Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 2, Social Worker/Occupational Therapist Grade 1
• Regular professional supervision and frequent professional development opportunities

What’s in it for you

• Great team culture
• Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
• Work-life balance

About us

Alfred Infant, Child & Youth Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Service (CYMHS) is one component of the Department of Mental & Addiction Health at Alfred Health.  We are a community-based service providing comprehensive assessment, treatment and case management to infants, children, adolescents and young people up to the age of 25 years of age presenting with behavioural, emotional, psychiatric or developmental difficulties. CYMHS provides clinical services in partnership with a wide range of service providers to achieve the best possible outcomes. Alfred CYMHS is committed to active participation by families and young people in evaluating and improving our services.

Child and Youth (C&Y) Hope

Child & Youth Hope is a program within CYMHS that supports children and young people experiencing suicidal behaviour, thoughts, or are at risk of serious self-harm. Child & Youth Hope team supports individuals and their personal support networks (family, friends and other carers) for up to three months, helping them to identify and build protective factors against suicide. This is achieved through the program’s coordinated care approach, which offers psychosocial, youth and family peer, and clinical support, delivered on an assertive outreach basis. There is a particular focus on intervening early to prevent crises, prioritising certain at-risk groups (such as young people identifying as LGBTIQA+, from Cultural or Linguistic Diverse backgrounds, and those presenting with neurodiversity or with a co-existing disability). The support offered is extended to the children and young people’s support networks, providing a holistic, systemic approach to both prevention and aftercare intervention. The Child & Youth Hope model of care was co-designed and is underpinned by the vision of providing timely, relatable, consistent and adaptable support; working collaboratively with the young person and their network; building and supporting their connectedness to the community; and, providing supported transitions and pathways out of the service to ongoing supports.

What you’ll be doing

Wellbeing workers work in collaboration with (and under the supervision of) senior clinicians, Youth and Family Peer Workers within the Child & Youth Hope program. The role provides children, young people and their support networks with practical, psychosocial, recovery-based assistance. The successful applicant will contribute and collaborate on the development and implementation of support plans for each young person involved with the program – these are centred around the goals of the child, young person and their support networks, integrating clinical treatment and management, with youth and family lived experience, and psychosocial support.  The role is focused on supporting navigation and engagement with a diverse range of community organisations and support services, addressing psychosocial goals and stressors, and supporting their connectedness with the community. There are opportunities for the successful applicant to gain exposure to and build skills in psychosocial and clinicial assessment, formulation, risk assessment and management, brief interventions. 

What we need from you

• Recently graduated health practitioner in Nursing, Social work or Occupational Therapy
• Approved tertiary qualifications in relevant discipline and eligibility for membership of AHPRA (or the appropriate professional body)
• Appropriate work visa
• Current Victorian Driver’s License
• Current Working with Children Check and be willing to undergo a Background Check

Other benefits

• Wellbeing initiatives
• Salary packaging, discounted health insurance and banking
• Portable long service leave from other public health services
• Located close to public transport, shops and restaurants

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the APPLY button, include your resume and cover letter. 

For more information regarding the position please contact Angela Wright on ph: 0439 299 483

Closing date: Sunday, 20 November 2022, by 11pm AEDT

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.  Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine and must provide evidence of their vaccination status. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.    

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au