Team Leader - Intensive Outreach Team

$62.40 to $75.05 (dependent on discipline and exp) per hour + salary packaging | Team Leader - Intensive Outreach Team

Permanent Full Time | 40 hours per week including a monthly ADO

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic mental health professional to lead a multidisciplinary team delivering specialised care to consumers with complex and enduring mental illness. As Team Leader of the Intensive Outreach Team, you will provide operational and clinical leadership in partnership with the Consultant Psychiatrist, driving excellence in evidence-based, recovery-oriented and person-centred care. 

You will play a pivotal role in leading service improvement, supporting staff development, and ensuring high-quality consumer outcomes across the care journey. This is the most senior position within the team and offers the opportunity to influence service delivery, foster innovation, and embed a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support a multidisciplinary mental health team.

• Drive evidence-based, recovery-oriented clinical practice.

• Partner with the Consultant Psychiatrist on service leadership.

• Lead service improvements and change management initiatives.

• Ensure safe, high-quality and person-centred care delivery.

• Build effective partnerships with consumers and stakeholders.

Skills & Experience

• AHPRA registration or AASW eligibility in a relevant discipline.

• Experience leading multidisciplinary mental health teams.

• Strong mental health assessment and clinical decision-making skills.

• Knowledge of mental health legislation and contemporary practice.

• Commitment to recovery-oriented and family-inclusive care.

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Culture & Benefits 

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset.  We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities

• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays

• Access to Fitness Passport membership

• Staff rewards and recognition programs

Interested?

Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Margaret Clarke, Acting Deputy Operations Director on 0477 460 613 for a confidential discussion. 

We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.

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About Grampians Health

Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Ballarat Region

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Ballarat has some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat

Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check. All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.