Clinical Case Manager. 12-month Max-Term Contract Full Time - Hobart

About the Organisation and Service

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

The iConnect team sits firmly alongside our other youth and family mental health programs across the state as a whole service and can proudly report we have a strong reputation in the sector as a highly skilled and effective youth and family mental health service provider for over 10 years, and our service provision is growing rapidly. We provide a supportive environment, focussed on staff wellbeing with high team morale.  We are heavily focussed on investing in best practice service delivery and invest significantly in ongoing professional development.  The team is also located with other LWB services such as youth and family support services, foster care and disability services where shared collaboration is encouraged.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

Life Without Barriers Youth and Family Mental Health Services are accredited under the National Mental Health Standards, and we are seeking an enthusiastic, engaging and experienced Mental Health Case Manager (Allied Health Professional) to join the iConnect Youth and Family Mental Health team within a 12-month Maximum Term Full Time Contract Commencing mid-late March. Case Managers work intensively 1-1 with young people and their families, to assist them to make significant improvements to their mental health, wellbeing and functioning and to walk alongside to help them achieve their goals. The role works in direct partnership with the Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) in Southern Tasmania, where as a collaborative team, you will jointly work together to provide intensive support packages of care to young people, who are clients of CYMHS, with complex mental health issues.  You will collaborate closely within the iConnect teams, who are located in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie. 

As part of a highly skilled, supportive wrap around outreach mental health team, you will draw on a solid practitioner knowledge base (2-5 years post graduate experience in mental health). Alongside the CYMHS clinical team, you will provide comprehensive care planning, risk assessment, and will deliver therapeutic 1-1 support and clinical case management through evidence based outcome oriented therapeutic modalities.  You will support young people and their families with complex mental health and functional challenges. 

The role is based in Hobart but you will also have the opportunity to work in the community and on an outreach basis in order to meet the needs of young people.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a range of evidence-based psychosocial and psychological interventions to individuals/families presenting with multiple needs.
• Monitor and review clients progress against the care plan and outcome measures.
• Engage in case discussion and review with partner organisations and care team demonstrating client outcomes. 
• Through intervention and clinical case management, and through linkage to support services, support clients to maintain or re-engage in education and/or employment, social, and recreational networks, self-management, independent living, and increase individual and community based relationships.
• Work jointly and collaboratively with CYMHS as the clinical lead, as well as other services to ensure effective wrap around intervention and support.
• Work collaboratively with the client and the care team to plan for and develop the skills to exit or transition from the service, including referral to other services where appropriate.

Key Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant Allied Health profession, such as Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or other relevant Qualification, with at least 2-5 years post graduate clinical experience in mental health.  Training and experience in therapeutic modalities such as DBT and ACT is an advantage but not essential.
• Demonstrated experience delivering therapeutic support to young people aged 12 - 18 years and their families.
• Demonstrated capacity to work both as part of a multi-disciplinary team, autonomously in the community with multiple clients. 
• Highly developed analytical skills and demonstrated experience in developing care plans and psychological interventions with young people and families using a range of evidence based psychological interventions.
• The ability to work collaboratively with agencies that support people with complex and challenging needs such as with mental health services, GPs, Psychiatrists, or other statutory or community based services.
• Demonstrated experience operating within both internal and external Clinical Governance frameworks
• Full registration or eligibility for registration/membership with the relevant professional body/organisation.
• A genuine enthusiasm to work in youth friendly ways to provide therapeutic case management and a range of evidenced-based psychological interventions to deliver positive results.
• Willing and eager to provide interventions and case management support in an engaging, flexible and client focused recovery approach, and in a range of settings including outreach in rural areas and/or via e-health platforms.

Benefits of Working with the iConnect team

• Regular Opportunities for personal and professional development with a personalised professional development plan.
• Regular clinical supervision and reflective practice with a skilled clinical supervisor.
• Access to support tools and resources to effectively engage in therapeutic work in the community, including training in therapeutic modalities such as DBT.
• Manageable caseloads reflective of the needs of the client group, required levels of case management and therapeutic supports.
• Administrative support
• Work within a highly supportive team environment who have a strong reputation in the sector.
• Tool of Trade Vehicle for business and personal use, as well as your own fuel card. 
• Monthly RDO's

Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For confidential enquiries including persons with disability that require application adjustments, email Jeff Edge - jeffrey.edge@lwb.org.au with the subject heading ‘Case Manager - Hobart'

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications are continuously reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Sunday 9th February 2025 Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and hold Tasmanian Working with Vulnerable People Registration.