This is a full-time position on a fixed-term basis until 30 June 2025. This role is based at the Wakefield Street office, however travel and working at other sites will be required.
About Nunkuwarrin Yunti
Nunkuwarrin Yunti, the foremost Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation in Adelaide aims to promote and deliver improvement in the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families in the greater metropolitan areas of Adelaide and regional areas to advance their social, cultural and economic status. The Organisation places a strong focus on a client centered approach to the delivery of services and a collaborative working culture to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients.
Nunkuwarrin Yunti is a Child Safe Organisation.
Job Description
About the Program:
The Primary Care - Mental Health Care Services (PMHCS) Program is funded by the Adelaide Primary Health Network. This Program will utilise comprehensive needs assessment, service mapping and evidence-based mental health plans to implement a flexible system with effective interventions in the way services and programs are delivered across the lifespan and across the trajectory of mental health disorders.
About the Role:
The primary role of the Clinical Care Coordinator is and not limited to:
Provide program coordinator of mental health service delivery.
Provide evidence-based client care and services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are living with severe mental disorders, and support their families and carers.
Work collaboratively to engage, improve and maintain links with GPs and psychiatrists, and other service providers, including allied health professionals, and liaise with external agencies to deliver best practice psycho-social services.
Use available information systems and best practice evidence to inform program planning and clinical decision-making, and to evaluate outcomes.
Operate within a professional practice framework appropriate to the position and role.
Desired Skills and Experience
Selection Criteria:
Essential -
Registered as a/Allied Health Practitioner via Australian Health Practitioner Registration Authority (AHPRA), with at least three (3) years post registration experience.
Qualifications and experience in Acute and Community Mental Health
Experience working in an Aboriginal primary health care setting and an understanding of how a range of issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may impact their health.
Demonstrated experience working effectively with Aboriginal people living with severe mental health disorders and comorbidities including drug and alcohol misuse.
Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to operate autonomously with limited direct supervision
Ability to work under pressure in a busy workplace environment, to assess priorities and meet deadlines, and respond appropriate to difficult and/or stressful situations in a calm, sensitive and professional manner
Demonstrated ability to deliver a high level of professional judgment and clinical competence in evidence based mental health service delivery and care coordination, and a sound understanding of clinical governance
Demonstrated competence setting client-centred goals and strategies using the best available evidence
Desirable -
Experience working, setting up and coordinating in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service
An understanding of the social determinants of health and the ability to practice within this framework
Capacity to provide innovative solutions to complex problems, and ability to engage, negotiate and resolve conflict
Please Note: A National Police Check, Working with Children Check and Driver's License is mandatory for this role.
