Mental Health Clinician, Coral Tree Family Service
Supporting Families in a Unique Therapeutic Environment.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Dependent on qualification
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ529755
Salary (per week)
Health Professional (Level 1/2): $1,359.64 - $1,939.70
Registered Nurse: $1,342.54 - $1,884.90
Psychologist: $1,432.43 - $2,096.59
Join the Coral Tree team and use your skills to make a tangible impact on families, with opportunities for growth and professional development in a collaborative, expert environment.
What you'll be doing
Coral Tree Family Service is a tertiary referral service for children with mental health problems. The service provides treatment to referred children in the context of their family and conceptualises the family as the unit of treatment. Families come from across NSW for planned 4 night stays with up to 3 families at a time being in residence.
Family Workers staff the residential family admissions program and provide the crucial residential ‘in situ’ mental health interventions that make our service unique. Family workers act as agents of change, seeking to find opportunities for improved interactions in the ‘here and now’ of family life. Focus is on empowering parents/carers to find better ways of helping the children in their care. A respectful partnership with all family members is an essential prerequisite to achieving positive outcomes. The role involves care coordination throughout a families contact with the service by liaising with allocated families and their referrers. This central role involves preparing families for admission, organising the care required during their stay, providing therapeutic interventions with other members of the team during the admission, reporting back to referring agents following the stay, and providing some telephone follow up support to the family.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Recognised qualifications as a Psychologist, Registered Nurse, or Occupational Therapist with current registration through the relevant Professional Board of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, or eligibility for Membership for Social Workers with the AASW.
- Post qualification experience that demonstrates the ability to provide a range of mental health interventions to children with severe emotional and behavioural problems.
- Post qualification experience that demonstrates the ability to provide a range of therapeutic interventions aimed at helping and assisting families with mental health and relationship difficulties.
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For role related queries or questions contact Andrew Bartle on Andrew.Bartle@health.nsw.gov.au or 0408 694 991.
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
Applications Close: 7 November 2024
