About Us
Children's Health Queensland is a specialist statewide hospital and health service dedicated to caring for children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
We are committed to collaborating with all of our healthcare partners, most importantly families, to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality patient and family-centred care.
A recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, education and research, Children's Health Queensland delivers a full range of clinical services, tertiary level care and health promotion programs.
We provide an integrated network of services through:
- The Queensland Children's Hospital
- The Child and Youth Community Health Service
- The Child and Youth Mental Health Service
- Statewide services and programs, including specialist outreach and telehealth services
- Partnerships with other hospital and health services and non-government organisations
Children's Health Queensland provides services from key locations in the Brisbane metropolitan area and works with the 15 other hospital and health services as well as NGOs and charity partners in Queensland to deliver an integrated network of healthcare services and support across the state.
Your Opportunity:
The position of Senior Health Practitioner - GenZ Initiative and Clinical Care Coordinator position will:
- Work with one or more mental health clinicians to embed the original GenZ Initiative and Mental Health Clinical Care Co-Ordination into clinical business as usual processes across the broader CHQ CYMHS system.
- Deliver high level professional clinical mental health services as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to optimise psycho-social outcomes for children and young people with severe and complex mental health problems and disorders, and their families and carers.
- Deliver a combination of clinical and non-clinical responsibilities and functions. The overall aim is to reduce the risk of suicide (re)attempts following a previous attempt or suicidal crisis.
- Work in partnership with other GenZ Initiative clinicians within the CYMHS continuum of care, to develop and embed a coherent model of the GenZ Initiative into clinical business as usual processes.
- Support the work unit through education and coordination of referrals and care delivery of eligible mental health consumers between the health service and the non-government service provider across campus based and community settings to ensure the interface between the two services supports seamless patient flow.
What CHQ HHS can offer
Apart from contributing to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, you will also benefit from a competitive remuneration package and a working environment which embraces professional development, builds capabilities and supports staff to maximise their health and wellbeing. Additional benefits include:
- Up to 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
- 17.5% annual leave loading
- Salary packaging
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/life balance, variety and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Some roles within Queensland Health are designated as 'Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk roles'. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. Please refer to the attached Role Description for more information and what requirements may exist.
The Workforce attractive incentive scheme may apply to this position, please refer to the guidelines for further information https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
