ALLI HOLT

• Responsible for a caseload of 18 diverse patients who are residing in an acute inpatient unit in Thomas Embling Hospital
• Provision of individual therapeutic interventions using evidence-based treatment approaches (i.e., drug and alcohol support, dual-diagnosis, counselling, family violence, group work)
• Provision of secondary consultation, complex care coordination and case management
• Specialist psychosocial assessments, structured family work, risk assessments and interventions
• Initiation and implementation of discipline specific quality improvement activities
• Training and mentoring graduate social workers and provision of supervision for social work students
• Implementation and facilitation of new prevention and management of aggression framework across the service
• Development and implementation of comprehensive NDIS packages
• Educating and consulting members of the multidisciplinary team regarding interpersonal, social, cultural and systemic issues
• Liaison with public and private service providers, facilitating stream-lined inter-agency collaboration

• Provision of support to DJCS and AMHS in responding to individuals with complex needs who present a high risk of serious violent and/or sexual offending in the community, via expert assessment, secondary consultation, completion of reports, and coordination of service provision
• Contribution to the formulation and documentation of risk assessment and management plans
• Contribution to the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist education and consultancy services to stakeholders, in particular to DJCS and AMHS
• Liaison with and provision of high level consultation and advice to justice agencies, other healthcare professionals, and non government organisations
• Reporting as required to DFFH, Serious Offenders Consultation Team (SOCT) and Multi Agency Panel (MAP)

• Creation and facilitation of workshops across a wide breadth of stakeholders (public mental health providers, statutory agencies and multi-agency government groups)
• Supported meaningful partnership with lived experience voices, clinical staff and experts
• Research and policy analysis
• Building and maintaining positive relationships with public mental health providers nationally
• Preparation of reports, ministerial briefs, cabinet and agency submissions
• Provided timely, evidence based, strategic advice, reasoned recommendations and innovative solutions to complex and sensitive issues based on research to senior/ management to enable decision-making

• Responsible for managing a caseload across two public designated mental health services (this involved; a mother baby unit, a secure extended care unit, a child and adolescent unit, an eating disorder unit, an aged unit and two acute units)
• Supporting consumers to be aware of the principles and rights as stipulated in the Mental Health Act (2014)
• Provision of independent, representational advocacy for consumers across various clinical spaces, this included: clinical reviews, family meetings, treatment planning and mental health tribunal hearings
• Responsible for building and maintaining links at my corresponding services, fostering positive relationships to ensure collaboration can occur across service providers
• Facilitating training for AMHS clinical staff on Supported Decision Making approaches
• Maintaining detailed case notes and accurate statistical and other records for the purpose of information retrieval, project evaluation and case work
• Linkage and referrals to further protect consumers rights
• Liaison with families, carers and supporters
• Management of the LGBTQIA+ portfolio
• Creation and facilitation of a state-wide reflective practice space

• Responsible for providing phone-based support for patients nationally, providing unwavering empathetic and compassionate care
• Structured vulnerability and risk assessment
• Developed understanding of social barriers to access, and relevant referral pathways (i.e., homelessness, family violence, AOD,incarceration, addiction, mental health, reproductive coercion, age, assault)
• Liaison with clinical teams, psychologists, hospitals, medical professionals, counsellors and social workers
• Retrieval and analysis of data related to client access, equity and agency
• Operating consistently within a pro-choice, intersectional feminist framework
• Advocacy

Part of student placement requirements

• Provision of psychosocial support using person-centred, strengths-based, recovery-focused approaches
• Design and implementation of new client record keeping processes
• Development and facilitation of groups for clients to create open and safe space to discuss healthy relationships, consent, LGBTQI+ education, and sexual health

Part of student placement requirements

• Provision of ongoing case management, support, short-term counselling, crisis-intervention, risk management and advocacy for who were incarcerated at Dame Phyliss Frost Centre
• Worked in a multidisciplinary team of lawyers and social workers to support shared clients, and provide integrated legal and social work assistance
• Supported clients at Mental Health Tribunal hearings