Clinical Team Leader
Job No:
Berry3217
Location:
Eaglemont
- Great opportunity for development!
- Eaglemont location
- Full Time – 12 Month Fixed term Contract (maternity leave cover)
- Salary package equivalent to $123, 500 FTE p.a (inclusive of base salary, super, and salary packaging)
- Motor Vehicle Allowance up to $10, 500 p.a
For over 140 years, Berry Street has adapted to a changing world, and we will continue to adapt to achieve our purpose. We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful. Our Vision for 2022: Together we will courageously change lives and reimagine service systems. We look forward to working with children, young people, families, carers, staff and partners to achieve this vision. Together.
About Take Two:
Take Two is a state-wide service providing high quality therapeutic services to children and young people who have suffered significant abuse, neglect or disrupted attachment and are clients of Child Protection.
About the role:
The Clinical Team Leader holds an important role in the Take Two team, leading a team of Clinicians providing intensive therapeutic services to children and young people and the systems around them. The Clinical Team Leader manages all day to day clinical activities of the team as well as ensuring compliance standards are met.
This role will be responsible for:
- The oversight of a clinical team ensuring high quality clinical services for children and young people including providing supervision and ensuring high quality services and timely reports are delivered
- Liaising and building strong working relationships with DHHS Principal Practitioners to ensure the relevant regional referral processes are in place and targets are met
- Building strong and collaborative relationships with relevant partner agencies and programs including Therapeutic Residential Care and Stronger Families
- Lead, support and build a strong culture within your team
- Ensure that relevant client records are maintained according to Australasian standards
About you:
The successful candidate will have demonstrated management and leadership skills, including the ability to build a team and team members to perform well. You will have experience providing clinical supervision, monitoring workloads and individual performance as well as the ability to provide secondary consultation and advice to clinical staff and other professionals.
To be successful in this role, a tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Family Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, Occupational Therapy or related discipline is required. A minimum of 7 years’ experience conducting clinical work is ideal. Experience in supervising clinical staff is also required.
What can Berry Street offer you?
- Additional salary packaging available for meals/accommodation.
- Flexible work arrangements and generous leave conditions.
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.
For further information about this role, please refer to the position description.
Queries to Gillian Cross, Clinical Manager North Division on 9450 4700
Applications including resume, cover letter and statement addressing the key selection criteria to be submitted by 11pm, Wednesday 31st July 2019
To download the position description, please click here
To download the key selection criteria template, please click here
Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify with a sexual and or gender minority identity. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Comprehensive reference and background checking will be undertaken, including a Working with Children Check and police check. Aboriginal people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.