Manager Clinical Practice

• Join a leading provider trusted to deliver exceptional services in Youth Residential Care
• A new role created to offer expert case consultation & clinical supervision & oversight
• Flexibility to work from various locations & work from home

About the role: 

AV has dedicated Therapeutic Specialists who develop assessments and trauma informed care plans for young people in our Therapeutic Residential Care houses.

• Review and have oversight of assessments
• Offer interventions which are tailored and varied encompassing broad complexity and associated risk for our young people in care with a range of presentations

As our first Manager Clinical Practice you will ensure clinical oversight of around 10 Therapeutic Specialists based at our Residential Units across the state. You will provide quality clinical supervision, manage risk, lead and embed best practice models such as CARE and TCI and develop capability to ensure fidelity and practice mechanisms.

As we embark on this exciting period of change across our Residential Care services, we hope that you will be as excited as we are about this new role and welcome you to reach out for all the details using the contact details below.

You can download and view the full position description here:  Manager Clinical Practice PDCS SM ICB 092023 V1.0.pdf

About our ideal candidate:

• A clinical psychologist or a social worker with additional training or registration as an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker.
• An understanding of CARE and TCI would be highly regarded; however, training will be provided.
• Experienced in delivering individual and group supervision. Post graduate training or accreditation in clinical supervision.
• Experience in creating a cohesive and collaborative team for various cohorts and ability to undertake clinical supervision.
• The ability to provide expert case consultation and advice to highly skilled specialists, particularly around trauma, attachment, mental health, disability, substance abuse and sexually harmful behaviours, and developmental assessments.
• Exceptional Leadership capability in respect to people, performance and outcomes in both internal operations and the delivery of great outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management working with Child Protection and the DFFH ore broadly.
• Systemic family work or a background in Family Therapy would be advantageous.

What makes this such a great role for you:

This is a career defining opportunity to join one of Victoria’s leading organisation’s that has led major change to the system through its services and impact, and is an opportunity for you to be a part of our continued journey in working and servicing the needs of vulnerable children youth and families.

As a Manager Clinical Practice at AV you’ll receive:

• A total salary package of $165,000
• Access to Salary Packaging of up to $15,900.
• Access to discounted health insurance and other retail discounts.
• Access to AV’s suite of Health and Wellbeing benefits, such as our Well Worth It! Program, EIP and EAP.
• Supervision provided by our Statewide Principal Practitioner.
• Flexibility to work from multiple office.
• Flexibility to work from home.
• Access to pool cars for travel.

What our people say- “AV is an organisation where if you want to challenge yourself or explore opportunities, you don’t have to leave to do that. There are so many great people, programs and services, so it’s an organisation where you have great conditions for growth and development”.