Lead specialist care for children and young people in mental health

Metro South Health is seeking a Senior Allied Health Clinician (HP4) to join the Bayside Child and Youth Mental Health Service on a permanent full-time basis. This role delivers high-quality, evidence-based mental health services to children and young people with complex presentations, while providing clinical leadership, supervision and contributing to service development within a high-performing multidisciplinary team.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Senior Allied Health Clinician within Bayside CYMHS, you will deliver advanced, discipline-specific mental health assessment and intervention to children and young people experiencing severe and complex mental health needs. You will operate with a high level of clinical autonomy while acting as a key clinical reference point for the team, contributing to leadership, supervision and service improvement initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering specialist assessment, intervention and evaluation within CYMHS
• Acting as a clinical reference point for complex and non-routine presentations
• Applying advanced clinical judgement with minimal supervision
• Providing supervision and education to HP3 clinicians, students and AHAs

About you:

You are an experienced allied health professional who brings strong clinical expertise, leadership capability and a passion for child and youth mental health. You are confident managing complex presentations, supporting others' development and contributing to continuous improvement within a collaborative team environment.

You will bring:

• Eligibility for registration or membership as a Psychologist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Speech Pathologist
• Demonstrated experience delivering specialist child and youth mental health services
• Strong clinical judgement and decision-making in complex care environments
• Experience providing supervision, education or mentoring to clinicians and students

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

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 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.

• MS02675722 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)