Your new role:
As a Senior Social Worker within the Headspace In-Reach team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality mental health and family intervention services to young people and their families, while contributing to service development and clinical leadership across the program.
Deliver evidence-based social work assessments, therapeutic family interventions and mental health services to young people aged 12-25 years within a multidisciplinary team environment.
Provide specialist clinical expertise and support for complex presentations, using sound clinical judgement and a family-centred, recovery-oriented approach.
Contribute to service improvement, quality initiatives, clinical education and the development of evidence-based practices, policies and programs.
Provide supervision, mentoring and training to junior clinicians, students and support staff while fostering collaborative partnerships with community and health service stakeholders.
About you:
You are an experienced and compassionate Social Worker with a strong background in youth mental health and family interventions, who thrives in a collaborative and fast-paced clinical environment.
Demonstrated expertise in delivering social work assessments, family interventions and mental health services for children, adolescents, young people and their families.
Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and teamwork skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and provide clinical advice across multidisciplinary settings.
Proven ability to manage a complex caseload, prioritise competing demands and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in a dynamic environment.
Experience providing clinical supervision, education and support to developing practitioners, together with a commitment to continuous improvement and evidence-based practice.
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What we can offer you:
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role.
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.
We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
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