Behaviour Support Clinician jobs

About the Team

The Child Health Service (CHS) provides universal, multidisciplinary primary community health care services for children from birth to 8 years who reside in the catchment area for the Child and Youth Community Health Service (CYCHS), CHQ. The service seeks to achieve positive early childhood health and development outcomes through surveillance and monitoring of child growth and development and addressing family areas of concern using an early intervention, relationship-based framework, to reduce and minimize the impact of risk factors and strengthen parents/carers' capacity to support their child's ongoing health and development needs.

About the Role

In this role you will deliver quality outcomes for children, young people and families (Leader of Self) in accordance with the Children's Health Queensland Leadership Excellence Framework and the Queensland Public Service and the CHQ values. Your contribution will include:

Provide targeted individual, couple and group interventions on a short-to-medium term basis and using the principles of family-centred care, predominately with the parent/caregiver(s) but focused on the child in the context of referred families that that access the Child Health Service (CHS), Child and Youth Community Health Service.
Partner with families to facilitate goal-directed, resource-efficient and evidence-based interventions that seek to enhance care-giving capacity through reduction or improvement in factors that influence parental functioning and the determinants of child health.
Establish, communicate and document a thorough understanding and formulation of biological, psychological and socio-emotional factors related to the child and their family to inform multidisciplinary clinical parenting interventions related to parental adjustment, parenting and parent-child relationships and behaviour management

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

Opportunities for professional growth and development
Competitive renumeration
Annual pay increases
12.75% employer superannuation contribution
17.5% annual leave loading
Salary packaging
Employee wellness and assistance program
Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.