Make a meaningful contribution to your community and help us create healthier communities as our Mental Health Clinician in headspace Armidale.
Armidale | Full-Time | Permanent
The purpose of this role is to provide recovery-oriented, evidence-based therapeutic intervention services to young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations. The successful candidate will work alongside other Mental Health Clinicians to deliver high-quality mental health services.
This includes working under supervision within professional practice standards and guidelines set by headspace Armidale and HealthWISE.
To find out more about headspace visit http://headspace.org.au/.
Engage young people aged 12–25 using a relational, strengths-based, trauma-informed and culturally safe approach. Apply deep listening and comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment frameworks to explore mental, physical and sexual health, substance use and social, educational and vocational needs with young people and their family and support networks.
Deliver high-quality, evidence-based clinical services, including brief interventions, single-session support, individual therapeutic interventions and other treatment approaches tailored to the young person’s presentation, goals and stage of recovery.
Develop clinical formulations informed by assessment findings and collaboratively create, implement, and monitor individualised care plans and therapeutic goals that respond to each young person’s unique strengths, needs and circumstances.
HealthWISE is a specialist provider in rural and remote NSW and southern QLD. We deliver a wide range of community-led services across every life stage, with a strong and growing focus on mental health and youth wellbeing.
Our purpose is to create healthier communities as we deliver integrated primary, allied and mental health services, including youth-specific and culturally responsive programs, with a long-standing commitment to Aboriginal and LGBT+ health.
A cover letter and resume are required for all applicants.
Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date. For this reason, applicants are advised not to delay in applying for this role.
Please contact Georgie Oates for a copy of position description and other questions via georgie.oates@healthwise.org.au
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
