Mental Health Clinician – Child & Youth in Jimboomba

Accoras has been delivering community mental health and psychosocial support services in Queensland for over 30 years. We are growing into new programs, new communities and new regions, driven by a belief that more people deserve access to high-quality, evidence-based care. Our strategy is built on the principles of a Restorative, Just and Learning Culture. In practice, this means we don't just learn from what goes wrong but also what goes right. We expect our people to innovate, to challenge the status quo, and to take considered risks in pursuit of better outcomes for the communities we serve. We are committed to being better tomorrow than we were yesterday. Everything we do at Accoras is with a view on 'Changing Lives' - for our clients, participants and our own people.

As a Mental Health Clinician - Child & Youth (qualified), you’ll work within a shared-care model alongside Child, Youth and Family Practitioners. The role provides clinical support including clinical assessments, evidence-based clinical interventions, trauma informed care, clinical reviews and intensive case management to young people (7-17) who have severe and complex mental health needs (with or without a diagnosed mental illness), and with varying complex psychosocial needs impacting overall wellbeing and day to day functioning. Your professional approach will support the holistic needs of the young person and their family, including mental health, psychological, social, emotional and the physical wellbeing of the individual. This is a full-time role working from our Jimboomba location. You will provide outreach support in client homes and schools within the Logan/Beaudesert region, with all work-related travel reimbursed.

To succeed in this role, you will be a qualified professional with a minimum of two years’ work experience using case management approaches to support in the care planning, review and follow up coordination for program participants. You will work collaboratively with caregivers, stakeholders and team members to provide mental health clinical care and coordination alongside psychosocial supports which contribute to the care planning and case management strategies which support the step up and step down process to access the most appropriate services.

Essential responsibilities will include:

• Conducting and reviewing developmentally appropriate, comprehensive clinical mental health assessments, including mental state assessments, clinical risk assessments and relevant clinical outcome measures, and developing and reviewing clinical formulations, care plans and risk management plans.
• Provision of evidence-based, developmentally appropriate, child centred, trauma informed, culturally safe, responsive and recovery-oriented care.
• Ensuring risk management and safety plans identify and provide interventions in response to clinical and psychosocial risks associated with young people’s safety.
• Case management of allocated clients and their families, including assessment, care planning, coordination of supports, advocacy, referral, review and transition planning.
• Advocating for the children or young person’s needs and supporting their participation in decisions, whilst remaining inclusive of family, caregivers, other family representatives.
• Collaborating with relevant service providers where children and young people have co-occurring mental health, substance use, developmental, disability, behavioural or psychosocial needs.
• Contributing to, and facilitating team learning and professional development by sharing relevant clinical and technical expertise.
• Ensuring quality standards are adhered to and that opportunities to improve or streamline systems and processes are raised appropriately.
• Ensuring timely reporting in line with risk, lawful reporting and within program time frames and guidelines.

Essential Qualifications:

• Successful completion of a recognised tertiary degree qualification in social work, psychology, nursing or occupational therapy that provides eligibility to practice in the relevant profession.
• Where the qualification is in nursing or occupational therapy, a relevant postgraduate or recognised specialist qualification in mental health is also required.
• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (AHPRA) in psychology, nursing or occupational therapy or full membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).

Our clients have a variety of cultural backgrounds and life experiences, and we are committed to building a team that reflects and responds to this diversity. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a lived/living experience of mental illness, LGBTQIAP+ people and people with a disability.

What we offer:

• Above award rates with generous salary packaging options only available to employees of a not-for-profit organisation including Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free!!) and Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650.
• A flexible workplace that accommodates preferences for an eight or nine day fortnight.
• Additional paid leave over Christmas and on your birthday, and a paid volunteer day each year.
• Leave loading at 17.5%.
• Supportive and collaborative team environment.
• Professional development, training and regular supervision and mentoring.