Senior Youth Mental Health Clinician-Yeps

Job Description

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• Fantastic Opportunity to Join the Youth Early Psychosis Service at Austin Health
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• Senior Clinician- Youth Early Psychosis Service (YEPS), Austin Health ICYMHS
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• Open to: Grade 3 Clinical Psychologists, Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists (Grade 4 Allied Health under the recently signed off Public Mental Health EBA 2024-2028)
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• Permanent Full time (40 hours per week with ADO every 4 weeks)
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

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About YEPS

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YEPS is a specialty program of the Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). YEPS is a multi-disciplinary team that provides early intervention and treatment to young people aged 16-25 who are experiencing psychosis during adolescence or early adulthood who live in the Banyule and Nillumbik local government areas. YEPS case managers provide evidence-based, phase-specific treatment for young consumers and support to their families or carers. The service operates within business hours.

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The team office is in Heidelberg. Travel will be expected between campuses as required and in an outreach capacity for the purposes of fulfilling the needs of the allocated caseload.

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About the role

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The Youth Early Psychosis Service (YEPS) is a specialist sub-program that provides assertive outreach model of case management for young people with psychotic illness during adolescence or early adulthood. Senior mental health clinicians within YEPS are members of the multidisciplinary outreach team, under the direction of the YEPS Team Leader, and the Program Manager, Central Community and Specialist Teams.

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Roles include capability building, consultation, and liaison with adjacent programs within Austin Mental Health, and community service providers to support the functional recovery and remission of symptoms of young people with Early Psychosis and their families, and to improve their recovery outcomes.

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In this role the clinician will primarily provide a community based outreach mental health service to young people aged 16-25 years, their families and wider service systems within the Banyule and Nillumbik council areas.

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About you

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You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a supportive team approach to their work. You'll have strong organisational and time management skills, as shown by a dynamic and flexible approach to time and caseload management.

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To be successful in this role you will bring with you:

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• A relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatric nursing or speech pathology), with current registration with the relevant professional board, association or college, as well as registration with APHRA (where necessary)
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• Experience in working systemically with children and adolescents who have mental illness and difficulties engaging in recovery, as well as their families and their system of care and support, including individual, outreach and carer-focused clinical services
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• Knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice including complex crisis assessments and clinical formulation and diagnosis informed by a developmental/systemic perspective
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• Experience in developing individualised service plans for the mental health case management and therapeutic treatment of young people and their families/carer systems
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. While this is not an Identified position, we actively welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as a significant proportion of our clients identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We are committed to fostering a culturally safe and inclusive workplace and delivering culturally safe services to the community.

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Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

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• Greater take‐home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
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• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
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• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
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• Mentoring and career development opportunities.
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• We foster a culture that celebrates and respects each and every person
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• Attractive rates matched to your experience and Accrued Day Off every month for full time staff
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• A commitment to assist with career development opportunities
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• Ongoing clinical support with individualised professional development plans
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• Employees and their direct family members can receive free professional, confidential counselling through the Austin Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Mindfulness meditation classes are available for employees at all three main hospital sites.
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• A list of benefits which can be found via: https://www.austin.org.au/careers/benefits/
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Work with us!

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We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

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All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach at Rowan. CHIPCHASE@austin.org.au.

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Application Closing Date: Monday 21 September 2026

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