Under 12's Specialist - Early in Life Mental Health

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An exciting opportunity to join a thriving, engaged team of clinicians providing front-line assessment and brief treatment to complex and acute young people in the South East. Exposure to a multidisciplinary team led by consultant psychiatrists partnering with some of the most experienced clinicians in the wider service, iACT is a highly supportive, collaborative, and hard-working team where clinicians can develop fundamental and advanced clinical skills rapidly. 

About the Role - (Part-time Fixed 0.8eft, temporary Parental Leave position until 22/08/2025) 

This role has emerged from a focussed government initiative to ensure equitable access to the public mental health system for children aged under 12 years of age. The position is of a senior mental health clinician with training, qualifications and experience in assessing and treating under 12-year-olds with mental health problems. The key components of the role include:  

• Complex and comprehensive psychiatric assessments of children aged under 12 years and their families.  

• Providing session-limited treatment to children aged under 12 years and their families, working within individual, parent, dyadic and family contexts.  

• Care coordination of children aged under 12 years.  

• Working within a systemic framework - ensuring that all components of a child social system are considered and included in their care.    

• Provide consultation within iACT, across ELMHS and with key stakeholders outside of ELMHS for children under 12 years of age.  

• Working collaboratively as a member of the iACT multidisciplinary team and sharing team duties  

• The capacity to hold a case load that includes a number of complex cases.   

• The capacity to take a lead role in care co-ordination of complex cases involving multiple systems.  

• The capacity to support the senior clinician co-ordinator in the management of patient flow and the development of a model of care that accords with the ELMHS developmental episodic model of care for children and adolescents that present with a range of complex care needs.  

• High level of skill in collaborative practice with a range of community and statutory agencies. 

The part-time (0.8eft) temp maternity leave position is primarily based in Dandenong and the core business hours of this team are 8.30am-5.00pm. 

The position is an Allied Health Grade 3, Psychologist Grade 3, RN Div 1 Grade 4 

About ELMHS 

Early in Life Mental Health Services (ELMHS) provides assessment and treatment for infants, children, adolescents, young people and their families. We work with the 0-18 age in the Southern Region. We provide a comprehensive assessment service and a range of treatment options including inpatient treatment in times of crisis, community (outpatient) treatment, group programs, family therapy, and specialist services. The Intake, Assessment, Consultation and Brief Treatment Team (iACT) provides up to six sessions of initial assessment and treatment for referrals received by our service. We work with families in addressing a number of complex issues that families may be experiencing including school refusal, parent/child relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, trauma related issues, self-harm, suicidal thinking, eating disorders, and psychosis. 

Monash Health will offer: 

• Competitive salary 

• Salary packaging 

• Friendly and supportive culture 

• Opportunity to experience various teams 

• On-going supervision and professional development 

Important Information to Note 

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed.  These include: 

• reference checks; 

• a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months; 

• a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and 

• proof of immunisation. 

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made. As part of our selection process, you may be invited by email to participate in an on-camera video interview. Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19. All applicants to positions with Monash Health will need to upload acceptable evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19 and Influenza as part of their application. Acceptable evidence is a copy of your Immunisation History Statement which can be accessed via myGov. Offers of employment will only be made to candidates who can provide evidence that they meet full vaccination status. 

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Jayde Tissera, Manager on (03) 9767 8274. 

Position Description can be found here

Position Description  Attachment can be found here

Appendix B - Team Chart can be found here

Appendix C - Discipline Specific Duties can be found here

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How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date. 

Applications close 10th January, 2025. This position has been readvertised; those candidates that have already applied need not apply again.