Job description
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The Youth Wellbeing Workforce are key roles in the delivery of psychosocial recovery-focused care within the Orygen Recovery. This workforce will work in collaboration with young people, their family/carers and the clinical workforce to provide a range of psychosocial interventions and support to assist young people with achieving their recovery goals.
Reporting to the Youth Wellbeing Discipline Lead you will:
- Provide support to young people, carers, families and significant others through psychosocial Recovery Oriented Practice to ensure individually tailored services for young people and their family and carers that is provided to the highest standard.
- Work collaboratively with the Youth Wellbeing Discipline Lead, medical, clinical practitioners and lived experience workforce in understanding and managing young person risks.
- Understand the young person’s individual recovery goals and assist them to meet these goals. This may include facilitating access to local service providers with clinical mental health, physical health, education and employment, eligible entitlements and benefits, housing transport, recreation and social connections to support post discharge transitions back in to the community.
- Promote Orygen Recovery by communicating regularly with, building and maintaining collaborative working relationships with health and welfare agencies and the general community.
You will be required to work across a 24/7 roster, including morning, afternoon and overnight shifts.
What you’ll need
You are passionate, energetic and determined to make a difference to health and wellbeing outcomes for young people. The following criteria must be met for consideration for this position:
- Minimum qualifications of Certificate IV in mental health and previous experience working in youth mental health, or extensive experience in mental health.
- A thorough understanding and experience in a psychosocial model.
- Ability to support a young person with the creation, development, and monitoring of their goals, as well as to deliver brief psychosocial interventions both in 1:1 and group settings.
- Ability to assess risk and follow relevant protocols to manage crisis situations calmly and effectively.
- Ability to help program participants link in with other relevant community resources and to promote the rights, responsibilities and recovery of young people.
What you’ll get in return
- Salary package between $71,124 – $76,271 pro rata commensurate with skills and experience + 10.5% super + NFP salary packaging up to $15,900 + $2,600 meals and entertainment card.
- Ability to purchase additional leave; access to EAP; generous Parental Leave Scheme.
- Flexible work to suit your lifestyle and access to policies and tools that support this.
- Opportunity to contribute to the success of a purpose driven organisation.
Orygen – leading the revolution
Imagine a future with unlimited potential. A future where every young person enjoys optimal mental health as they grow into adulthood.
At Orygen, this is our life’s work, because we passionately believe it’s what all young people deserve.
Every step of the way, young people and families are at the heart of everything we do. Always.
Through world-leading research that creates change. Through pioneering reform that delivers real-world practical solutions.
At Orygen, that’s the future we’re creating right now. To do it, we have revolution in mind.
Join the revolution
If you’re keen to join Orygen and be part of our team challenging the status quo and reshaping the future for young people, apply now.
For more information and to review the position description, please see the attachment.
This is a part-time (0.8FTE) ongoing position.
Applications will remain open until closing date, unless a suitable candidate is found sooner.
Orygen is committed to providing diverse, equitable and inclusive environments for Staff and anyone connected to Orygen. We strive to continue building a culturally safe workplace where our values underpin the way we work and our commitment to First Nations people of Australia, young people and their families, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ people and CALD communities. We strongly encourage applications from the First Nations people.
Orygen is a child-safe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and well-being of all young people and embedding safeguarding practices into all our programs and services.
All employment appointments are subject to holding a valid working with children check, successful police check and having at least three COVID-19 vaccinations.