Mental Health Clinician

Permanent full time mental health clinician position available at the Youth Response Team

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Clinician Level 3
Remuneration: Dependent on Qualification
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ574874

Salary: (Per Week)

Allied Health Professional: $2154.06 - $2223.86

Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2: $2170.30 - $2241.60

Clinical Psychologist: $2093.71 - $2551.93

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.   

Where you'll be working: Northern Sydney Local Health District wide covering Macquarie, Brookvale and Mona Vale Hospitals

What You’ll be doing: Provide after-hours rapid crisis response to young people (12-17years) in suicidal distress within the community, aiming to create a safe space in their home environment and facilitate contact with local services who can provide further and ongoing support. This includes rostered work within the established Safe Havens at Macquarie Hospital and Brookvale Community Health Centre and at the Youth Response Team in North Ryde and Mona Vale.
Clinicians will provide recovery-oriented and trauma-informed clinical care for young people who are in suicidal crisis. Support may include crisis response, psychosocial support, safety planning, recovery/wellness planning, advocacy, and collaborative identification of community supports, risk assessment, care planning, referral to appropriate care settings, liaison with signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding under the NSW Mental Health Act (2007).

Clinicians will deliver support that aligns with the principles of step up/step down care. This includes making referrals to a range of community-based services for ongoing support if required (step down), or escalating concerns over consumer wellbeing to other acute or emergency services (step up).

The clinicians will work in collaboration with the Towards Zero Suicide working group for the ongoing co-design, phased development and evaluation of the model of care and support best clinical practice.
 Clinicians will be working autonomously with minimal clinical direct supervision. They will be utilising extensive specialist knowledge on clinical care of a suicidal person with a focus on young people 12-17years old, for providing independent judgement, solving problems and managing complex cases.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply. 

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: