About the role
The Youth Mental Health Team is a multi-disciplinary team which provides support and treatment to persons aged 15 to 24 who may be experiencing a Major Mental Illness or significant Mental Distress.

This position will require the successful candidates to provide assessment, treatment and crisis interventions. This will also include liaison with other community services within the local communities.

We are seeking a mental health clinician to join our Ballarat Youth Mental Health Team. The successful candidate will be based in Ballarat.

The team is well supported by a full time Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Registrar. Grampians Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (GAMHWS) is a dynamic Area Mental Health Service, proudly part of Grampians Health striving to provide the highest standards of treatment to people in the Greater Grampians region.

We are currently in the process of undergoing significant service reform with the active involvement and engagement of all staff in the service.

Key Responsibilities

• Clinically treat a caseload of patients as the primary treating clinician within a multi- disciplinary team that emphasises,
  practices and continually seeks to improve patient-centred, family-inclusive, community-based, evidence-based and best practices
• Actively and effectively, work within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the generic and discipline-specific clinical expertise of that multidisciplinary team.
• Evaluate the effects of implemented treatment of all patients and their families in accordance with BHS – MHS policies, procedures and discipline-specific standards.
• Undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, identify and prioritize patient and family needs and/or referral option.

Skills and experience

• Relevant professional qualification in a health-related discipline (psychology, nursing, social work or occupational therapy)
• Experience working therapeutically with young people and their families
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• High degree of professionalism and demonstrated ability to maintain ethical standards 

Culture & Benefits
At Grampians Health, we recognize our staff are our greatest asset.  We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays.
• Access to discounted health club membership
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.

Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest center in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city.  Dubbed Australia’s most livable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping.  Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

How to apply
Click APPLY or contact Dennis Carter Team Leader, on 53204565 for a confidential discussion.

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask.  Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.

Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.