Family Therapy Lead - ELMHS

at  Monash Health

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Part time
Organisation: Monash Health
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training, Health and Allied Health, Family Violence Workers, Medical, Nursing
Reference: 65364

Family Therapist Lead with qualification & experience in assessing & treating young people (0-17yo) with mental health problems.

• Exciting opportunity for a Family Therapist Lead
• Opportunity to provide expert clinical leadership in family therapy within ELMHS wide service
• Lead practice change & build the workforce capability & expertise regarding Family Therapy

ABOUT YOU

Seeking to grow our dedicated & knowledgeable team, we are looking for you to bring your demonstrated skills and experience in case management and assessment, working with children and families within a multidisciplinary team.
You are adaptable to a changing environment as we work together to deliver first class service. Alongside your caring and engaging manner, you have a positive work attitude, strong communication skills and a strong people-person focus allowing you to engage with our clients (patients) and their families.

On a personal level, you are:

• dedicated to safe best practice & quality care
• committed to delivering quality care, service & advocacy
• enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively
• excited to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence
• an advocate of Monash Health’s Strategic Guiding Principles

An exciting opportunity for a Family Therapist Lead to join a thriving, engaged team of clinicians providing clinic based mental health assessment, formulation and treatment to complex and acute young people in the South East. Exposure to a multidisciplinary team led by consultant psychiatrists, the Core Community Treatment Team provides medium term treatment for children, adolescents and their families in the City of Casey, City of Greater Dandenong, Shire of Cardinia and the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula area. We work collaboratively with families, schools and other agencies to create identified areas for change and work strongly from a relational and systemic framework.
The Family Therapist Lead position will be attached, but not limited to, the Core Community Treatment Teams within ELMHS which include the Infant Child & Family stream and Adolescent stream.
This part time (3 days a week) role will suit a creative and innovative candidate who strive to learn and embrace emerging practice directions. ELMHS attracts clinicians who believe that families and individuals have the capacity to change and are instrumental in supporting this process. We are highly driven by internal collaborative relationships and value enthusiastic work practices and enhancing team relationships.
This role is funded as a Grade 4 allied health clinician: Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology (HR28, HR12, HR16) Grade 4 Psychologist (PM4) and Grade 5 Nursing (NP51).