Team Leader - Community Engagement Team

- Permanent Full Time | Grade 5 Social work, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing and Grade 4 Psychology
- Ringwood | Conveniently located near Eastland Shopping Centre and public transport
- A rare and unique position for a clinician skilled in stakeholder engagement

Eastern Health

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne's largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services, including maternity, palliative care, mental health, drug and alcohol, residential care, community health and state-wide specialist services to people and communities that are diverse in culture, age, socio-economic status, population and healthcare needs.

Eastern Health's Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) is one of thirteen specialist mental health and wellbeing services in Victoria providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and community based multidisciplinary teams for infants, children and young people up to the age of 25 years and experiencing significant mental health or emotional, behavioural and/or developmental challenges, and their families.

About the role

The Community Engagement Team has a key role in developing and maintaining effective relationships and partnerships between the Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Service and education, health, welfare and other government/non-government agencies and services across the Eastern Metropolitan region, with the aim of promoting effective, integrated mental health services for infants, children, young people and their families.

As the Team Leader of the Community Engagement Team you will:

- Lead the development of effective partnerships and relationships with key services and agencies across the Eastern Region
- Oversee delivery and review of the ICYMHS secondary consultation program, including provision of regular secondary consultation to education, health and welfare services within the eastern region and provide supervision to ICYMHS clinicians delivering secondary consultations
- Oversee the delivery and evaluation of an annual program of community education seminars,
- Co-ordinate and deliver Youth Mental Health First Aid training,



and other trainings as required to key agencies and professionals with the region
- Co-ordinate the delivery of the Youth Suicide Response and Recovery Protocol
- Engage in and provide opportunities for networking and liaison to develop collaborative working relationships with our community partners.

About you

To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Current registration with AHPRA; for Social Work, eligibility for membership of AASW
- Highly developed clinical expertise in Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health
- Extensive experience in clinical and operational leadership
- A high level of experience in providing primary, secondary and tertiary consultation
- Demonstrated experience in the establishment, ongoing coordination and evaluation of community programs and activities.
- Demonstrated experience in the planning, delivery and evaluation of mental health training,
- High level communication, written and verbal, with demonstrated high level of interpersonal skills and effective management of key stakeholder relationships.

Healthcare workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in the Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice). Seasonal vaccination against influenza is a mandatory requirement of this role and an offer is conditional on this being up to date prior to employment.

Those that are offered and/or start between January and April do not require an up to date vaccination for Influenza to progress providing they are aware of its requirement later in the year. Those that are offered and/or start between May and December require the up to date Influenza vaccination prior to offer.

What we offer

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!

- Mentor and Shadowing program
- Access to discovery days across our 50 sites
- Study and career development leave
- Friendly & supportive teams




- Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Fitness Passport for work-life balance
- Employee Assistance program accessible for you and your loved ones
- Flexible working hours and excellent entitlements
- Salary packaging options and an employee benefits scheme
- Access to Private Health Insurance offers
- Digital upskilling, such as excel and Power-Bi training
- Cafes at all of our Hospitals

Next Steps

Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check.

Valuable to know:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.
- We do not accept recruitment agency application

If you are a current Eastern Health employee please ensure you log in with your internal Eastern Health account to apply for this or other roles.

Please click here for the position description link

Contact Person: Nicole Harris

Contact Email: *************@easternhealth.org.au

Job Posting End Date: 25/09/2026

Need help submitting your application?

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7*** (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3***. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

Click Here for the Candidate Guide also for help in our recruitment process!

Our Values in Action:

Respect for all | Protected always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day

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