Senior Clinician

Job No: Berry3351
Location: Bairnsdale

  • Take Two
  • Bairnsdale office location – required to travel to Sale, Morwell and outer Gippsland area
  • Permanent Part Time (0.8FTE)
  • Salary package equivalent up to $110,000 FTE pro rata (inclusive of base salary, super and salary packaging)
  • Full private use Motor Vehicle

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.

The Opportunity

This role will cover different programs within Take Two including Therapeutic Residential Care, co-ordinating the Wellbeing Program and the Intensive Therapeutic Services.

The primary objectives of the role will be:

  • Provision of high quality assessment and advice relating to the care of Child Protection clients referred to the Take Two program.
  • Provision of counselling and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and their families.
  • Work closely and collaboratively with the client, their families and the care team to achieve therapeutic goals and outcomes.
  • Have a leadership role in the team and supervise clinicians in the team.
  • Provide clinical supervision to clinicians and students as required.

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About You

Our ideal candidate will have sound decision making skills, reflected in excellent clinical judgements and a high degree of self-discipline, reflected in the ability to provide targeted clinical services within strict time-frames. You will have a demonstrated ability to provide a high standard of complex direct service in the clinical assessment and treatment of children, young people and families; and to comply with service delivery towards output and outcomes requirement.

An understanding of the complexity of the service system and the issues involved in providing services to statutory clients is essential, along with the willingness to coach and develop others, impart knowledge and provide supervision to clinicians.

An appropriate Bachelor degree level or higher qualification in Psychology, Social Work or related discipline is required along with a minimum of 5 years’ experience conducting clinical work with children.

The Benefits

  • 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.

How to Apply

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by 11pm on Sunday 8th December 2019. Queries to Lyn Radford - Clinical Manager on 9429 5160. 

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.

 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.

Aboriginal people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.

 

 

 

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