Team Leader Box Hill Community Team

Team Leader - Box Hill Community Team - Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Service

• Permanent Full Time | 40 hours per week | 5 weeks annual leave + monthly day off
• Box Hill | Local car parking + walkable to Box Hill Central for cafes and shops
• Dynamic and innovative team with supportive workplace culture

Eastern Health

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.

Our Employee Value Proposition is “Being a part of Eastern Health means belonging to a welcoming team of healthcare experts”.

This statement aligns with our promise to our communities, patients, consumers and staff that we will be HEALTHIER TOGETHER. Bolder than a vision for the future, our promise calls us to action. We know that working together is the only way we can achieve what is necessary for a healthier future.

Eastern Health’s Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) is one of thirteen specialist mental health and wellbeing services in Victoria providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and community based multidisciplinary teams for infants, children and young people up to the age of 25 years and experiencing significant mental health or emotional, behavioral and/or developmental challenges, and their families.

About the role

The Box Hill Community Team works to improve the outcomes for children and adolescents aged 0-25 years, and their families,experiencing significant emotional, behavioral or mental health difficulties alongside a range of vulnerabilities, including trauma and family violence. As theTeam Leader, working in close collaboration with the Team Consultant Psychiatrist, you will provide day to day operational leadership and clinical support to the multidisciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of high quality clinical care, including the provision of a range of evidence based specialist interventions, to assist children, adolescents and their families/carers, to achieve improved health and wellbeing outcomes.The includes provision of supervision and mentoring of early career clinicians will be an essential component of the role. You will additionally manage a small case load of children and adolescents.

About you

• Current OT, Psychology or nursing registration with AHPRA; for Social Work, eligibility for membership of AASW
• Demonstrated ability and experience in clinical and operational leadership
• Highly developed clinical expertise in infant and child and youth mental health
• A strong commitment tohigh qualitycare
• The ability to work as partof a diverse team
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Experience family therapy is desirable

Healthcare workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in the Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice). Seasonal vaccination against influenza is a mandatory requirement of this role and an offer is conditional on this being up to date prior to employment.

Those that are offered and/or start between January and April do not require an up to date vaccination for Influenza to progress providing they are aware of its requirement later in the year. Those that are offered and/or start between May and December require the up to date Influenza vaccination prior to offer.

What we offer

• Mentor and Shadowing program
• Access to discovery days across our 50 sites
• Study and professional development leave
• Friendly & supportive teams
• Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Fitness Passport for work-life balance
• Employee Assistance program accessible for you and your loved ones
• Flexible working hours and excellent entitlements
• Salary packaging options and an employee benefits scheme
• Access to Private Health Insurance offers
• Digital upskilling, such as excel and Power-Bi training
• Cafes at all of our Hospitals

Good to know:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application

Contact Person: Felicity Brown

Contact Number: 0402 298 ***

Contact Email: **************@easternhealth.org.au

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7*** (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3***. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

Our Values in Action:

Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day

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