BROOKE BUTLER
Baldivis,WA
Summary
To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Snr Aboriginal Youth Engagement Case Worker
Department Of Health - South-East Metro
01.2021 - Current
- Clinical case management of ATSI young people who enter withdrawal and detox unit in inner city area within a multi-disciplinary medical team.
- Support community and interagency support/liaison for children in departmental care including hospital, CPFS and Justice - Youth detention and support from detox unit to residential setting (our 3 month program) and provide clinical assessments for Aboriginal young people, including supports for NDIS/FASD clients
- Facilitate consultations with key stakeholders in relation to capacity building of AOD sector to respond to needs of Aboriginal consumers
- Community education, communication and promotion of AOD sector particular Aboriginal AOD issues
- Develop new protocols and promote evidence based approaches to AOD policy, planning and service delivery
Multi Systemic Therapy Clinician ATSI/Aboriginal Project Support
MST North & Executive Office - Child & Adolescent Health Services
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Intensive, home-based, family intervention for addressing significant behavioural and emotional problems in older children and young adolescents
- Aboriginal Cultural Security Review (CAMHS) - Clinical Planning - Facilitating development and implementation of project tool, evaluation and action plan for future recommendations to increase the cultural safety into practice across CAMHS.
Clinical Counsellor/Provisional Psychologist
Yorgum Aboriginal Corporation
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Intensive trauma-focused counselling and case-work with interagency involvement
- Family systems approach and individual therapy for Aboriginal families/children in CPFS care to manage behavioural and emotional difficulties of children who have experienced trauma and abuse
- Supporting the development of Child Sexual Abuse Therapeutic (CSAT) within the clinical team - implement screening tools
- Supporting the team with CPFS cases, psychological assessment and family systems approach, as well as developing PD sessions
- Psychological/psychometric testing when required.
Senior Consultant - Aboriginal Engagement and Coordination
Department for Child protection and Family Support/
06.2017 - 09.2017
- Aboriginal cultural consultancy with the development of Intensive Family support (IFS) program
- Providing oversight of ways of Aboriginal parenting to embed into training material
- Cross-cultural assessment tools to be used with IFS for assessing parenting responsiveness and attachment through Cultural lens
- Supporting the 'IFS' implementation/training for Learning & Development.
Aboriginal Mental Health Practitioner
North Metropolitan Health Service
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Case management of Ultra-high risk and complex mental health clients in outreach setting (Teir 4)
- Assessment and psychological interventions for clients tailored to mental health issue, risk of homelessness
- Ongoing psychological and psychosocial assessment and reporting
- Developing & delivering culturally sensitive mental health training course for working with and assessing mental health with Aboriginal clients.
Provisional Psychologist - Peel District
Department for Child Protection
04.2015 - 11.2015
- Therapy with children in care who have experienced abuse using trauma-informed Approaches, including ongoing psychological assessments as required
- Circle of Security group training for workers, carers and families with children in care or at risk of entering care
- Supporting carers to manage behavioural and emotional difficulties of children who have experienced trauma and abuse
- Child assessment Interviews and report writing, case consulting, and support
- Liaise with child health services and psychiatrists for diagnostic and medication reviews
- Case consultation for case-workers to support the direction and decisions in child Protection with psychological input and support Joint work with case-workers to complete Parenting Capacity Assessments for court (including psychological testing and assessments e.g.; IQ testing, personality testing,trauma symptoms and likelihood of capacity to comply with court requests.
Youth Justice Officer
Department of Corrective Services
01.2014 - 04.2015
- Complete risk assessments and court reports (Pre and Post-sentence reports) to address offending behaviour and likelihood of re-offending, assessing their reflective functioning to increase their sequential thinking and promote pro-social behaviours
- Manage caseload of young offenders on suspended sentences and community-based orders to ensure compliance with court required requests outreach to caseload of 15 clients to work with the family and address barriers to mental health, education, and behaviour change by increasing their skills using psychological support
- Liaise and provided reports with recommended sentence, proposed plans for court and parole to address factors that contribute to offending.
Aboriginal Cadet Officer/Caseworker
Department for Child Protection and Family Support
02.2010 - 08.2014
- Assessment and Intervention Team/Duty and Intake Team
- Case management inclusive of psycho-social assessments, reports and developing child safety plans
- Assessing child's environments, acknowledging needs for family to increase family safety and functioning
- Working with Aboriginal families to achieve better outcomes
- Developing culturally appropriate plans, liaison, organization, and consultation with families using a multi-agency liaison.
Education
Master of Applied Psychology (Professional) -
Murdoch University
Murdoch01.2015
Bachelor of Psychology - Psychology
Murdoch University
Murdoch01.2014
Certificates Professional Development
- Assessment of Aboriginal Mental Health - Tracey Westerman 2016 WASC-Y tool
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT training 2014)
- DBT-Skills - Lifeline training for teens
- Eye-Movement and Rapid Desensitization therapy (E.M.D.R training 2015)
- Suicide Prevention workshop - 2013
- We Al-Li training
- Parental mental health assessment training
- Assist/Objective (CPFS), PSOLIS (Health system)
- Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - 2014
- Suicide Risk Assessments
- AMHCON (Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network
- Child Assessment Interviewing - 2013
- Reference group for Circle of Security - Aboriginal ways CPFS
- Multi Systemic Therapy (MST) clinician treatment training (2020)
- Couples Therapy (2020)
- CAMHS Clinical Skills training
- Working with Children Check (WWC)
- Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid
References
- Josie Ford, Aboriginal MH Coordinator, CAMHS, 0420477833
- Allan Colthart, Clinical Psychologist - Clinical Managers - DAYS, 92226300
- Sarah Haythornewaite, Manager Clinical (previous Line manager), Yorgum, 0414964679
Timeline
Snr Aboriginal Youth Engagement Case Worker
Department Of Health - South-East Metro
01.2021 - Current
Multi Systemic Therapy Clinician ATSI/Aboriginal Project Support
MST North & Executive Office - Child & Adolescent Health Services
01.2020 - 01.2021
Senior Consultant - Aboriginal Engagement and Coordination
Department for Child protection and Family Support/
06.2017 - 09.2017
Clinical Counsellor/Provisional Psychologist
Yorgum Aboriginal Corporation
01.2017 - 01.2019
Provisional Psychologist - Peel District
Department for Child Protection
04.2015 - 11.2015
Aboriginal Mental Health Practitioner
North Metropolitan Health Service
01.2015 - 01.2017
Youth Justice Officer
Department of Corrective Services
01.2014 - 04.2015
Aboriginal Cadet Officer/Caseworker
Department for Child Protection and Family Support
02.2010 - 08.2014
Master of Applied Psychology (Professional) -
Murdoch University
Bachelor of Psychology - Psychology
Murdoch University
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