The Integrated Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) provides complex secondary and tertiary level health care. CYMHS offers specialised mental health services for families with children and young people (birth to 18 years) who experience severe and complex mental health problems, and where their needs cannot be met by other services. CYMHS provides a comprehensive, recovery-orientated mental healthcare service that aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their carer networks.

Job details

About the Team

Young people, their families and carers are at the heart of all we do. We are committed to delivering evidence based care in different and innovative ways.

As a campus, we focus on integrated, seamless delivery of care, where the whole campus wraps around each young person and there's no wrong door for accessing care. Our role is to help them on their recovery journey, and work collaboratively.

We also take a ‘whole of journey' view of young people, and understand their experience within CHQ starts well before we meet them. We partner with our colleagues across CHQ and work together to provide the best care, including knowing when to draw on each other's expertise. Our role is to advocate for the diverse social, emotional and physical wellbeing of all young people, including addressing discrimination of all types and driving the de-stigmatisation of mental health.

About the Role

The Senior Carer Coordinator will:

• Be primarily based at the Queensland Childrens Hospital in the CYMHS Acute Inpatient Units and Day Program.
• Be a positive role model for hope, encourage self-awareness and self-determination by sharing their own lived experience and life stories from the carers perspective.
• Works to facilitate the delivery, development and planning of support services to consumers, carers and families of the Child and Youth Mental health service.
• Promotes and provides guidance to the development and ongoing management of consumer and carer participation and provide systems advocacy in relation to consumer, carer, and family related issues.
• Utilise their lived experience of caring for someone with mental health issues to model recovery strategies to enable service providers and Non-Government Organisations (NGO's) to develop a better understanding of the recovery framework to achieve the best possible outcomes for young people and their families.

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.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.

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.

• CHQ_Information for Applicants_2025 (PDF)
  
  CHQ_Applicant Toolkit_2025 (PDF)
  
  AO5 Senior Carer Coordinator (PDF)