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Family Mental Health Clinician - headspace - Darwin

Family Mental Health Clinician - headspace - Darwin (JO-2301-2863) Darwin, Australia

Salary: AUD75000 - AUD89999 per annum

 

  • Salary range $75,000 - $89,999
  • Up to $3,500 for relocation, as well as scholarship and bursary grants available
  • Salary sacrificing up to $15,900 & 5 weeks annual leave

Why Anglicare/ Headspace?

Anglicare NT is a respected provider of quality human services across urban, regional and remote areas. Anglicare NT offers a range of career opportunities in the community and social services sector in a diverse range of fields such as children and youth, family relationships and counselling, refugee and migrant, corporate services, financial counselling, mental health, disability and home care, social enterprises and specialist homelessness services

What’s in it for you?

  • Salary of $75,000 - $89,999
  • Up to $3,500 for relocation assistance
  • Eligible for scholarship and bursary grants through NT PHN
  • 5 weeks annual leave
  • Salary packaging up to $15,900 annually

What’s the role?

  • Provide oversight and direction for the family work model across headspace programs
  • Maintain the philosophy, standards and policies of the Australian Early Psychosis Program (AEPP) model of care within headspace Early Psychosis
  • Provide family work expertise in collaboration with Early Psychosis clinicians in their work with families through contribution in clinical reviews, consultations with individual clinicians and directly supporting clinicians in their ongoing family work
  • Provide supervision and line management duties for Family Mentor(s), including providing/coordinating appropriate training, coordination of shift rosters and support referral and intake processes for the family mentor program
  • Hold a small clinical case load of young people experiencing symptoms of psychosis.

Is this the right role for you?

  • Approved tertiary qualification in a relevant allied health discipline
  • Registration with relevant regulatory body such as AHPRA or membership of, and adherence to professional standards (E.g. AASW for Social Workers)
  • Demonstrated experience working with individuals, families, and groups, specifically those with a range of emotional, social or developmental difficulties, preferably also with those who have experienced psychosis and alcohol and other drug issues
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to consult, support and collaborate with young people, family members, members of the general community and other professionals
  • Excellent clinical mental health skills in engagement, assessment, holistic care, crisis response, care coordination and recovery
  • Demonstrated commitment to work respectfully and inclusively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse people

Applications are sought from: Clinical Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists.


NT PHN/RWA NT may be able to offer relocation support and clinical educational financial assistance to health professionals who are relocating to the NT or moving within the NT to a greater remoteness area classification for the purposes of employment and further clinical education.

Want to find out more about this opportunity? Please contact Ashleigh McDonald on 08 8982 1056

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