Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) is a new, dedicated public youth mental health service and is the first of its kind in Australia. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team.

Specialist Care Coordinator

Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS)

FIXED TERM | FULL TIME – 1.0 FTE | 📍 PARKVILLE

Shape a statewide forensic youth mental health service and lead early intervention, complex care & system-wide consultation.

• Shape a new statewide forensic youth MH early intervention service.
• Provide expert consultation on complex, high-risk youth cases.
• Lead system-wide collaboration across justice, health & education.

About Us:

Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) is Victoria’s newest public mental health service dedicated to the care of young people aged 12 to 25 experiencing complex mental health challenges. 

PYMHWS is leading a bold and values-driven transformation in youth mental health care across Melbourne’s north and west. We exist to walk alongside young people, their families, carers, supporters and kin delivering care that is accessible, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, evidence-informed, and grounded in lived experience. Our service model is shaped by the voices of young people and their communities, and underpinned by a commitment to safety, equity, and continuous learning.

At PYMHWS, we are working with our community and partners to build in a future where all young people can access world-class mental health support, close to home. As we grow, we are looking for passionate, skilled, and visionary professionals to join us in shaping a new era of youth mental health in Victoria.  

The Opportunity:

This is a rare opportunity for a specialist senior clinician to help shape a groundbreaking statewide forensic youth mental health service. As part of the newly expanded Youth Forensic Assessment, Consultation and Treatment Service (YFACTS), you will play a key leadership role in delivering early intervention, diversion-focused care for young people with complex needs, while influencing system-wide responses across Youth Justice, Child Protection, Education and mental health services.

Community FYMHS sits within Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS), Victoria’s specialist youth forensic mental health service. This role is embedded within YFACTS, a Victorian Government-funded statewide program delivering an innovative early intervention model for young people at risk of involvement with the Youth Justice system.

YFACTS brings together specialist forensic youth mental health expertise to provide consultation, assessment, care coordination and treatment, working in partnership with key systems to improve outcomes for vulnerable young people presenting with problem behaviours. Funded alongside significant reform across policing, education and child-serving sectors, YFACTS positions this role at the forefront of system-wide change.

As the Specialist Care Coordinator, you will provide advanced forensic mental health expertise through consultation, assessment, formulation and treatment planning for young people with complex mental health, neurodevelopmental and trauma-related presentations. You will support a multidisciplinary team, contribute to clinical leadership and governance, and play a key role in strengthening system capability and coordinated care.

This is a unique opportunity to influence both individual outcomes and broader system reform, working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team to shape early intervention responses across Victoria. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), fixed-term position based at Parkville with statewide reach.

Why Join PYMHWS?

• Work within a highly skilled, multidisciplinary forensic MH team
• Shape a statewide early intervention and prevention service model
• Contribute to innovative approaches in forensic youth MH care

• Work with complex, meaningful and high-impact clinical presentations
• Provide specialist consultation across multiple service systems
• Collaborate with passionate, values-driven and visionary leaders
• Strong culture of reflective practice, learning and innovation
• Ongoing professional development, supervision and growth pathways
• Flexible, inclusive and supportive workplace culture
• Salary packaging up to $11,600 tax-free + additional benefits
• Access to EAP and a strong focus on staff wellbeing

About the Role:

The Specialist Care Coordinator provides advanced forensic mental health expertise within YFACTS, supporting young people with complex presentations, including neurodevelopmental disorders, trauma-related conditions, emerging personality vulnerability, and significant behavioural disturbance, often in the context of forensic risk.

Working within a multidisciplinary framework, the Specialist Care Coordinator leads and provides secondary consultation, contributes to shared formulation, and supports clinical decision-making for high-risk and complex cases. The role also includes supervision and support of multidisciplinary team members, active contribution to clinical governance activities, and involvement in ongoing service development aligned with contemporary forensic mental health frameworks and relevant legislation.

This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the interface of child and adolescent mental health and forensic practice, contributing to a statewide early intervention model focused on reducing justice system involvement and improving long-term clinical and functional outcomes for vulnerable young people.

What You'll Do:

• Provide specialist forensic mental health assessment, formulation and treatment planning for young people with complex needs.
• Deliver expert secondary consultation on high-risk and complex presentations across systems.
• Lead multidisciplinary case formulation and support high-quality clinical decision-making.
• Supervise and support multidisciplinary team members to strengthen clinical capability and practice.
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit, service development and continuous quality improvement.
• Collaborate with key system partners to enhance coordinated care and strengthen cross-agency responses.

About You:

You are a skilled and thoughtful experienced senior clinician with a strong interest in forensic and child and adolescent mental health, committed to improving outcomes for young people with complex needs.

• Relevant professional registration (e.g. Psychology with Clinical/Forensic endorsement, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or Registered Psychiatric Nurse)
• Extensive experience in youth mental health and/or forensic mental health settings
• Strong expertise in complex assessment, formulation and risk management
• Experience working within multidisciplinary and cross-sector systems
• Excellent consultation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Demonstrated ability to provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to others
• Commitment to trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate and culturally safe care
• Interest in service development, teaching and system capacity building

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re looking to be part of something truly meaningful and shape the future of forensic youth mental health, we’d love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Ingrid Cranston, Stream Lead on 0417 822 204 or Olivia Morrow, Team Lead on 0447 135 432

To view the full Position Description, please contact us.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

PYMHWS stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.