headspace Clinician – Youth Access Team

Date posted: Friday 19 April 2024
Closing date: Monday 13 May 2024

Full-time and part-time opportunities available for Intake Clinicians.

headspace Townsville, under the leadership of their lead agency Stride, deliver high quality evidence-based clinical care to achieve better health outcomes for young people aged 12-25 years.

Our multidisciplinary team supports young people in the Townsville region by providing support for mental health, physical health, alcohol and other drug use, and getting into work and study.

headspace Townsville offers a number of evidence based mental health and wellbeing treatments that range from low intensity brief interventions through to high intensity long-term interventions. These include:

• ‘One-at-a-time supports’ when young people may only be needing a few sessions with a clinician to work on current stressors or concerns.
• Moderate intensity medium-term individual and group therapy when young people may need a few more sessions to work on specific concerns such as anxiety, depression, or other mental health difficulties.
• A dedicated suicide prevention program (You Are Not Alone – YANA) that provides time-limited high intensity interventions for young people who are experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
• A dedicated trauma program (‘Tern’ program) that provides recovery focused long-term high intensity interventions for young people who have experienced multiple traumas throughout their lives.

Role overview

The headspace Youth Access Team is comprised of Intake Clinicians who act as the first point of contact for young people accessing the headspace service and play a significant role in their continued engagement. This role provides high quality assessments as well as evidence-based therapeutic interventions tailored to meet the individual needs of the young person. This includes a variety of modalities ranging from brief interventions through to longer-term care for young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

As an Intake Clinician, you will:

• Provide comprehensive mental health assessment, case management, intervention or group work as required.
• Provide evidence-based low intensity and moderate intensity mental health interventions to young people aged 12-25 years.
• Liaise with Senior Clinicians to monitor and manage client pathways, support referral triage, and support transitions to other services within the community.
• Participate in the provision of appropriate mental health education programs for health professionals, community-based services, and community groups as required.
• Participate in the identification, development and implementation of quality and service improvement activities that continually improve client care and enhance the delivery of services within a multidisciplinary team and the service.

Relocation options available

Stride will negotiate a suitable relocation allowance with successful applicants who are required to relocate.

On offer:

• Based in Townsville, Queensland.
• 1 x permanent, full-time opportunity available.
• 1 x permanent, part-time opportunity available.
• 2 x full-time, fixed-term opportunities available until 20/12/2024 - parental leave cover and secondment cover.
• Paying on HPSS Level 3, plus Super.
• Leave loading at 17.5%.
• Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free).
• Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650.
• Assistance with relocation expenses will be considered for the successful applicant.
• Purchase up to five additional leave days in a 12-month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time). 
• One paid wellbeing leave day per year.
• Paid parental leave.
• Stride Rewards – access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food, and fitness).
• One additional paid wellbeing leave day per year.

 headspace Townsville also provides:

• a learning and growth culture
• administrative support from a team of receptionists
• weekly supervision via case review as well as access to monthly individual supervision 
• access to training opportunities 
• online training and resources through Stride and headspace National.

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