About us: 

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services. Our values were developed by our staff, patients, and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About you: 

You are a qualified Occupational Therapist or Speech Pathologist or Social Worker or Psychologist with demonstrated high-level knowledge, skills, and expertise in the provision of culturally competent therapeutic mental health clinical services to children, young people, and their family/carers, including application of relevant State and National legislative, professional guidelines and duty of care obligations applicable to working within a specialist mental health care service. You have demonstrated high-level clinical and professional leadership skills, effective communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a flexible and innovative multi-disciplinary team setting, incorporating an interagency systemic model of care for children and young people at risk of or in Departmental care and you are competent in providing evidence informed assessment and treatment interventions as relevant to children, adolescents, and their family/carers, with the ability to adapt or modify standard methods or procedures to accommodate the needs of children and young people in out-of-homecare who present with severe and complex mental health challenges.

Your opportunity: 

You will be responsible for delivering high quality training for residential care providers, foster and kinship carers, and other stakeholders regarding trauma informed care and attachment issues for children in care, high-level evidence-informed clinical mental health services, including assessment, treatment planning, therapeutic intervention and evaluation, to children and young people engaged with Child Safety Services, Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women who present with extreme and complex emotional and behaviour challenges.

You will provide quality evidence-based professional and clinical leadership, in partnership with the Evolve Therapeutic Services Senior Clinicians and Clinical Lead.

Your role: 

• Apply high level clinical knowledge in childhood trauma, attachment theory, child development, collaborative practice, and systemic theory in the provision of a clinical mental health service to children, adolescents, and their family/carers.
• Maintain high level clinical documentation and report writing skills to meet the requirements of Queensland Health, Evolve Therapeutic Services, and external agencies.
• Manage a complex caseload, using evidence-based interventions and with infrequent need for direct monitoring and supervision.
• Provide a comprehensive and flexible clinical mental health service to children, adolescents and their family/carers including assessment, intervention, treatment planning and evaluation.
• Provide specialist mental health consultation to key stakeholders including professionals within internal and external government, non-government and private agencies, carer providers and families involved with children and young people in the care of the Child Safety Services.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

• Generous superannuation
• Salary packaging
• Annual incremental increases
• Career training and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland )