Team Leader - Whole Family Team
Location: Station Street, Penrith
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ558197
Application Close: 01/04/2025
Position Classification & Remuneration: Dependent on qualifications
Social Worker, Counsellor or Occupational Therapist Level 4: $121,658.00 - $124,607.00 per annum
Clinical Psychologist: $109,247.00 - $133,156.00 per annum
Senior Psychologist: $119,206.00 - $129,171.00 per annum
Nurse Unit Manager Level 2: $133,112.74 per annum
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
The Whole Family Team (WFT) is a multi-disciplinary team that provides specialist in-home and community-based interventions for adults and their families with complex mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues where the children have been identified at risk of significant harm. The team follows an assertive outreach model of care and works intensively with families for approximately twelve months. The Whole Family Team comprises clinicians from a range of disciplines who possess a broad scope of specialist clinical skills in mental health and drug and alcohol. Team members are encouraged and supported to fully utilise their professional training and expertise to meet the needs of families.
Our Mental Health service is seeking to engage a Team Leader for the Whole Family Team. In this role you will develop and maintain systems to ensure family focused and recovery-oriented service provision to families in which child protection concerns exist in the context of parental mental health and/or drug and alcohol problems. The Team Leader will be expected to hold a 50% clinical role, providing specialist assessment and intervention, and will provide expert consultation to internal and external service providers.
The successful incumbent will be responsible for day-to-day operational management of human, physical, and financial resources of the Whole of Family Team. This position, in conjunction with the team staff specialist, is also responsible for the clinical governance of the team. The Team Leader will participate in business and strategic planning, including monthly managerial reports and other reports as needed.
We invite you to take this next step in your career with us. Apply Today!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
· Accrued Day Off (ADO) for full time staff
· Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
· Novated Leasing
· Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
· Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
· Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.
NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
What you will bring to the role
- Tertiary qualifications, professional registration/membership as follows: a) Occupational Therapy - minimum bachelor’s degree and general registration with AHPRA b) Social Work - minimum Bachelor Degree and eligibility for membership of AASW; c) Nursing – Registered Nurse Division 1 with AHPRA with relevant post-registration qualifications in Mental Health or Drug and Alcohol; d) Senior Psychologist - full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia and 9 years' experience; e) Clinical Psychology – Master's Degree or higher in clinical psychology plus full registration as a psychologist and endorsement to practice as a clinical psychologist with AHPRA f) Counsellor - Must hold as a minimum a bachelor’s degree in counselling or a related field. Extensive clinical experience in Mental Health or Drug and Alcohol.
- Demonstrated experience in frontline leadership/ management of a clinical service including clinical supervision. This includes the ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team, to work independently, and to exercise independent judgement on issues requiring advanced clinical reasoning.
- Demonstrated understanding of the impact of social and cultural factors on family functioning, and to work with Aboriginal and other culturally diverse communities in culturally competent ways.
- Demonstrated competence in family focused, evidence based clinical assessment and intervention with a complex caseload in a community setting. This includes specialist knowledge of comorbid mental health and drug and alcohol problems, intra-familial child abuse and neglect, and contemporary family focused integrated treatment including risk assessment and safety planning.
- Demonstrated partnership building and negotiation skills with a wide range of service providers and well developed understanding of the interface between services.
- Demonstrated understanding of the legal and policy frameworks which governs mental health, drug and alcohol and child protection within NSW, including knowledge of the escalation pathways for, mental health, drug and alcohol and child protection issues
- Evidence of an advanced level of verbal/written communication skills, analytical and interpersonal skills and the ability to apply these skills to contribute to the Whole Family Team ongoing evaluation, monitoring and enhancement of service delivery including report writing.
- NSW Drivers Licence Class C (including P1 or above) and willingness to use same for work purposes.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
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For role related queries or questions contact Marita Schwendler on Marita.Schwendler@health.nsw.gov.au
