Youth Dual Diagnosis Clinician

• 2 Full-Time, Fixed-Term positions until June 2025
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

Named Premier’s Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth’s 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

This role will be joining the Melbourne City Mission Check-In Community Mental Health team based at Frontyard Youth Services in Melbourne’s CBD and will enhance the integrated, multi-disciplinary services currently being delivered to young people.

Through a harm reduction approach, the Youth Dual Diagnosis Clinician will provide individualised and group-based specialist support to young people who are experiencing difficulties associated with dual diagnosis with a focus on practical interventions rather than clinical assessments, and providing assessments, crisis interventions, care coordination.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Work flexibly and collaboratively with the Frontyard multidisciplinary team in supporting young people
• Provide age and developmentally appropriate individualised, assessment and support to young people
• Ensure that all support provided to young people is recovery oriented, trauma informed, culturally safe and evidence-based

What cohealth offers:

• Salary packaging to suit you – tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualifications in Nursing / Social work / Psychology / Mental Health and eligibility to join the relevant professional body (including AHPRA, AASW, APA)
• At least three years of mental health and/or AOD and/or Dual Diagnosis sector experience
• Demonstrated experience in delivering recovery focused, culturally safe, trauma informed, strengths- based support

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses).