Youth Care Coordinator -headspace Orange

If you want a challenging but rewarding role that will bring you invaluable career development then opportunity awaits you! Youth Care Coordinators deliver a range of evidence-based interventions that facilitate early help-seeking behaviour, and seamless access to early intervention health and wellbeing services.

We are looking for a Youth Care Coordinator to join our headspace team in Orange, NSW. This is a Full-Time role.

Employee Benefits:

• Clinical Supervision from a highly skilled team of Clinical Leads
• Opportunity for career growth and progression
• Salary packaging options to increase your take home salary
• Discounted private health insurance with Westfund
• Lower your grocery and petrol expenses by using our employee discounts program
• Up to 5 weeks annual leave per year, plus additional leave over Christmas/New Year
• Access to an annual Professional Development and Wellbeing allowance

What will I do?

• Conduct psychosocial assessments and screening of young people referred to headspace
• Engage with headspace clients to ensure ongoing service engagement
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the ongoing success of the centre
• Advocate on behalf of young people whose care needs are being coordinated by headspace
• Assist with community capacity building, community awareness, and education and training activities.

What do I need?

• Minimum Cert IV or tertiary qualification in psychology; social work; nursing; drug and alcohol work; youth work; mental health, or related field
• Proven ability to undertake clinical assessments of young people experiencing mental health or drug and alcohol problems
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary healthcare team
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and communicate effectively with young people
• Good working knowledge of computer technology and experience using clinical software packages.