Team Leader

About AMYOS

The Assertive Mobile Youth Outreach Service (AMYOS) team, as part of a broader integrated continuum of care, provides ongoing recovery-oriented assessment and assertive treatment for adolescents who are high‑risk and difficult to engage. Using intensive mobile assertive engagement and prevention‑focused interventions in community or residential settings, the multidisciplinary team manages crisis situations and reduces the need for inpatient bed‑based care. AMYOS works in partnership with other community service providers, including health care providers, education, child safety, housing, police, and youth justice services. A range of individual, family, and group‑based assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation programs are offered to treat mental illness, reduce emotional distress, and promote functioning within the community.

About the Role

The Team Leader, Child and Youth Mental Health Services will lead the multidisciplinary team, ensuring high‑quality clinical service delivery and effective operational management.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for all operational and managerial aspects and leadership of the multidisciplinary team of child and youth mental health.
• Demonstrate a high level of clinical knowledge and skill to ensure effective service delivery within the specialty area of child and youth mental health services.
• Provide expert clinical and operational leadership and expertise in strategic, operational, and human resource management, utilising a well‑developed level of clinical knowledge, problem‑solving skills and experience of complex contemporary clinical practice standards to ensure optimal clinical outcomes for consumers.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children’s Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales. Children’s Health Queensland’s interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people provides responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person‑centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children’s Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, the Child and Youth Community Health Service, the Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and Diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and workforce diversity. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

Employment Information

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