Do you thrive in work that combines mental health clinical expertise and service development. Look no further! The Children’s Health Queensland CYMHS - Acute Response Team is seeking dedicated individuals who have experience working in mental health with children and young people.

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Your expertise matters!

Why Choose Us?

• Rewarding Work:  Make a difference in the lives of young people and their families.
• Variety of Experience: deliver a combination of clinical and non-clinical work
• Professional Growth:  Develop a new service- CHQ Aftercare, embed its ongoing delivery, and incorporate it alongside existing services.

If you're ready to contribute to a brighter future, apply today.

 About the Team

The Acute Response Team operates 7 days a week, 24 hours a day to provide timely and responsive support in the management of acute mental health presentations or concerns. Clinicians in the team provide face to face mental health assessments in the Queensland Children's Hospital and The Prince Charles Hospital Emergency Departments, after hours mental health consultation and assessment for young people with acute mental health concerns admitted to non-mental health units of the hospital, crisis phone service for young people and their families/carers in the CHQ catchment and follow up phone support for consumers of CHQ catchment, following presentation to an Emergency Department and who are currently consumers of the Child and Youth Mental Health Care (CYMHS) community.

About the Role

The Suicide Clinical Care Co-Ordinator position will sit within the Acute Response Team (ART).  The position will sit within the Acute Response Team to support the clinical pathways and provide clinical leadership providing an after-care service for young people experiencing a suicidal crisis within the CHQ HHS.  Your contribution will include:

• Coordinate the Suicide Clinical Care Initiative, which implements the Zero Suicide Framework. This includes planning, coordinating, and evaluating suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies, delivering education, and reviewing data.
• Apply clinical knowledge to implement and adapt evidence-based suicide prevention and intervention strategies.
• Support the development and delivery of education and training on the Zero Suicide Framework for various professions and services.
• Support CYMHS by educating staff and coordinating care and referrals for mental health consumers to ensure seamless patient flow between services.
• Provide high-level clinical services, including independent assessment, treatment, and case management for children and young people with complex mental health issues and their families.
• Advocate for the mental health needs of clients and their carers.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge in child and youth mental health.
• Use independent professional judgment to manage a complex caseload and contribute to best practices.
• Help develop clinical practice procedures and protocols.
• Provide specialized mental health advice and work with the team on multi-disciplinary assessments and interventions.
• Share mental health knowledge and skills for team training and professional development.
• Lead your discipline's efforts to develop, implement, and evaluate clinical activities to improve care for children and young people with severe and complex mental health problems.
• Provide practice supervision, training, and support to staff and students.
• Lead quality activities and/or research to improve mental health practice.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 656127 - HP4 Suicide Clinical Care Coordinator_ART - RD (PDF, 759KB)
  Role Description
  
  656127 - NRG6 CN ART Suicide Clinical Care Co-Ordinator - RD (PDF, 763KB)
  Role Description
  
  CHQ_Applicant Toolkit_2025 (PDF, 862KB)
  Application Kit
  
  CHQ_Information for Applicants_2025 (PDF, 837KB)
  Information Package for Applicants