Jesuit Social Services is looking for an experienced Clinician to support the mental health needs of participants involved in our Navigator program, which supports disengaged learners aged 12-17 years.
Jesuit Social Services is a social change organisation working to build a just society where all people can live to their full potential.
Since 1977, we’ve provided services in some of the most disadvantaged in our community.
We place a high priority on advocacy and are a leader in policy development and research.
Navigator
Navigator is a program funded by state government that aims to support disengaged learners aged 12 to 17 years of age and work with them around a return to education or alternative pathway.
The program works closely with families and schools and uses assertive outreach, case management and restorative practice to re-engage children back into learning pathways.
Jesuit Social Services is the provider in the Brimbank Melton, Hume Moreland, North Eastern Melbourne and Inner Eastern Melbourne areas, working alongside local schools, services and the regional Department of Education and Training office.
Connexions
The Connexions program was founded in 1996, in response to the identified needs of marginalised young people experiencing high and complex needs.
It seeks to engage young people in relationships of trust and understanding, providing a professional service of flexible therapeutic counselling, clinical assessment, assertive outreach, case management, suicide prevention, drug and alcohol interventions, clinical consultancy, advocacy, and information and referral.
The Mental Health Clinician will work closely with the Navigator Program Coordinators, to engage with and support the mental health needs of young people on the program, across Hume Moreland, Brimbank Melton and North Eastern Melbourne Navigator regions.
Additionally the role is embedded in the Connexions team that will provide specialist support to each of the Navigator teams and program more broadly.
The Mental Health Clinician role will be integrated into the Navigator program model that consists of Active Hold Support (phone based), Targeted Case Management, long term Case Management and Mental Health specialist support through our Connexions Program.
This is a full time role and will working across both our Collingwood and Sunshine offices.
An attractive salary, plus superannuation and salary packaging is offered, together with ongoing professional and career development.
To be successful in the role you will have:
Applicants are required to respond to each of the Key Selection Criteria, with names and contact numbers of two referees. Your responses to the selection criteria should be incorporated into your covering letter.
Please apply in confidence.
Applications close at 5pm, Monday 25 January 2021.
Applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date and may be subject to change without notice.
Jesuit Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, sexuality, disability or religious affiliation.
Jesuit Social Services takes child protection seriously. We undertake multiple screening processes including appropriate reference and background checks, Working with Children Check and police checks to ensure the protection of children and young people in our care.
You are required to meet the behaviour standards outlined in our Code of Conduct.
