Emerging Minds · Hub Anzac Square, 200 Adelaide Street, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia
Emerging Minds is dedicated to advancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of infants, children, adolescents and their families in Australia. Emerging Minds develops mental health policy, services, interventions, training, programs and resources in response to the needs of professionals, children and their families Emerging Minds partners with family members and national and international organisations to implement evidence based practice into the Australian context. Emerging Minds strives to build and nurture a culture where inclusiveness is a reflex, not an initiative. Different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment.
Reporting to the Senior Child Mental Health Advisor, the Child Mental Health Advisor provides systems and organisational implementation guidance across services that support the health, development, safety and wellbeing of children and their families. The role leads the design and delivery of significant bodies of work, translating contemporary evidence, policy and practice knowledge into organisational implementation strategies, systems change approaches, workforce capability supports and sector development initiatives. The incumbent will work with services, organisations and systems to embed sustainable, child-aware, family-focused and culturally responsive approaches into policy, governance, service design and everyday ways of working. The incumbent provides specialist advice and consultation to colleagues, partners and stakeholders and contributes to National workforce and systems development priorities that improve outcomes for infants, children, families and communities.
Working with services and systems that support children’s health, development, safety and wellbeing – including child and family health, paediatric, child development, disability, child protection and community-based services is a key focus of the role.
KEY DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
Design, lead and continuously improve organisational and systems-level implementation initiatives that embed infant and child mental health, development, safety and family-focused approaches into policy, governance, service design and everyday ways of working.
Analyse system readiness, organisational capability and implementation barriers to inform tailored implementation and systems change approaches.
Provide advice, consultation and thought leadership on organisational implementation and systems change to support children’s health, development, safety and wellbeing.
Support internal teams, partners and stakeholders to integrate evidence-informed approaches into system improvement and service delivery.
Build and maintain productive relationships with service leaders, system stakeholders, researchers, governments, professional bodies, partner organisations and people with lived experience.
Facilitate consultation, co-design, implementation and quality improvement activities across multidisciplinary teams and sectors.
Provide advice, consultation and guidance to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Present complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
Plan, manage and deliver complex projects within agreed timelines and resource parameters.
Manage competing priorities, work independently and deliver high-quality outcomes.
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