Clinician

Join a leading trauma-informed service and grow your clinical career

Work in a role where your expertise directly supports children and young people recovering from trauma. At Berry Street, you’ll be part of a team committed to ensuring children, young people and families are safe, thriving and hopeful.

About Take Two

Take Two is a state-wide service providing high quality therapeutic services to children and young people who have suffered significant abuse, neglect or disrupted attachment and are clients of Child Protection. Working within the Bruce Perry’s neurosequential model of therapy, we work with the traumatised child, and with their caregivers, families and communities. We help them understand the child’s trauma, and how it’s impacting their development and behaviours.

• Shepparton location on Yorta Yorta Country
• Full time, Permanent role
• $106K + Super & Salary Packaging
• Vehicle will be provisioned, this could be a pool vehicle, tool of trade or MVA

This is a rewarding opportunity to join Take Two, a statewide therapeutic service supporting children and young people impacted by abuse, neglect and disrupted attachment.

As a Clinician you will:

• Carry a case load of clients who are at various stages of the episode of care, such as assessment, treatment and closure. Therapeutic work can range from short to long term.
• Work in a systemic and collaborative manner with the client, family and the care team to achieve the goals within the specified time frame.
• Deliver trauma-informed therapeutic services to children and young people in Child Protection.
• Conduct clinical assessments and develop treatment plans using the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)
• Provide individual, dyadic and systemic interventions
• Work collaboratively with families, carers and care teams to achieve meaningful outcomes
• Contribute to reports, case planning and, where required, court processes

About You

You are a thoughtful, adaptable clinician who is passionate about trauma-informed care and working with vulnerable children and families.

You will bring:

• Experience working with children, young people and families in therapeutic settings
• Strong understanding of trauma, attachment and development
• Confidence working in complex systems such as Child Protection or Out-of-Home Care
• Excellent assessment, report writing and stakeholder engagement skills
• The ability to work collaboratively and flexibly within multidisciplinary teams
• A Bachelor level qualification in Social Work, Psychology Family Therapy, OT, Speech Pathology or related discipline.

Our Benefits

• Access to continued professional development and upskilling
• Use of evidence-based interventions and treatments
• Committed to providing fortnightly supervision
• Additional salary packaging available for meals/accommodation.
• Flexible work arrangements and generous leave conditions.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.

How to Apply

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted ASAP as we are reviewing applications as we receive them.

Queries to Chelsea Francis, Clinical Team Leader on cfrancis@berrystreet.org.au

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies.

We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email recruitment@berrystreet.org.au or call 9421 9392.

Berry Street Yooralla is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a NDIS Screening Check, Working with Children Check and National and International Police check (if required) and NDIS training.