APS6 Clinician
 
Our client provides high-quality mental health assessment and clinical counselling services for Australian veterans and their families. They are focused on meeting client needs through a combination of proven clinical practices and new and emerging evidence-based approaches.
 
The Clinician will operate within multidisciplinary teams providing mental health and wellbeing support to Veterans and their immediate families.
 
As an APS 6 Clinician you will: 

• Provide high quality clinical services including risk assessment and intervention, referral, evidence-based individual, couple and family counselling, and case management to eligible clients in order to achieve outcomes identified in care planning.
• Conduct reviews with clients on counselling progress to determine further approaches and establish additional needs, including extensions to episodes of care.
• Using the Client Management System, maintain confidential files for each client that include session progress notes, care plans, risk assessment, and additional client interactions.
• Schedule and attend Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities, including clinical supervision, to maintain professional registration.
• Liaise and attend regular meetings with the Assistant Director and other Clinicians to review client cases, including those that may require extensions to episodes of care.
• Liaise with clients’ family members and additional treatment providers and/or other stakeholders to coordinate care. 

• Excellent interpersonal skills with competency in the provision of trauma informed, holistic, client centred intake, assessment and brief intervention with vulnerable clients.
• Ability to complete clinically appropriate intake assessment and documentation with formulated risk assessments which are tailored, appropriate, and actioned in accordance with presenting risk.
• High level of written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound judgement and the ability to respond to critical incidents in a calm and timely manner.

• Currently hold or ability to obtain a Working with Vulnerable People registration OR
• Currently hold or ability to obtain a Working with Children check

• Qualifications as a registered Psychologist / Occupational Therapist / Registered Nurse with full AHPRA registration, OR
• Social Worker with membership of the Australian Association Social Workers (AASW) on commencement, OR
• A Masters-level counselling qualification and registration with PACFA as a Registered Clinical Counsellor or with ACA at Level 3 or Level 4.