Acute Community Mental Health Clinician

Northern Health; Melbourne; Sur place; AUD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health & wellbeing programs

Flexible/workplace options

Inclusive and culturally safe space

Modern facilities

Professional development

Salary packaging & EAP

Résumé du poste

Northern Health is seeking a Mental Health Clinician to join the Merri-bek Community Team within the Mental Health Division. The role emphasizes acute assessment and intervention for consumers and their families in an in-reach and outreach capacity, with shift work across seven days between 8.30am and 10.30pm.

This is a full-time ongoing position located in Coburg/Coburg-area campuses, offering supportive teams and opportunities for professional development within a leading regional health

Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience post qualification.
• Passion about contributing positively to the lives of consumers with mental illness and their families.
• Advanced skills in psychiatric assessment and intervention for consumers with a mental illness.
• Previous experience working in a community setting in a public mental health service is highly preferable.
• Proven Leadership skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team but also able to work autonomously.
• Advanced communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of the wider MH services in catchment area.

Responsabilités

• Provide acute assessment and intervention within the Acute Community Intervention Service (ACIS).
• Work with a shared caseload of acute consumers in in-reach and outreach capacity.
• Deliver short-term intensive support for up to 3 months for appropriate consumers.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support consumers and carers.
• Contribute to recovery-focused, evidence-based practice within the team.

Connaissances

Leadership

Autonomy

Teamwork

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Description du poste

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Mental Health Clinician (RPN3, OT3, SW3 or Psychologist Grade 2) to join the Merri-bek Community Team within Northern Health's Mental Health Division.

Northern Health is the major provider of acute, maternity, sub-acute, mental health, specialist, community and home-based services in Melbourne's rapidly growing outer north.

Services are provided through our six main campuses:

Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Bundoora Centre, Craigieburn and Mernda Community Hospitals Centres and Kilmore District Hospital.

In addition, Mental Health Services are provided at Epping, Broadmeadows, Jacana, Preston, Mill Park, Mernda and Coburg.

About Mental Health Division:

Northern Health is the third largest mental health service in Victoria Northern.

Within the Mental Health Division, we pride ourselves on providing high quality mental health services to people living in the northern regions of Melbourne, and work in a collaborative way with consumers and carers based on recovery principles.

We aim to provide strong clinical leadership to support all staff in the provision of professional treatment and care by our integrated community teams, inpatient, and residential services.

About the Role:

We are located centrally in Coburg- close to Public Transport and parking options.

The Merri-bek Community team is a large, supportive and dynamic team made up of staff that are truly passionate and motivated in supporting consumers and their families/carers.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist mental health services to people who reside in the local government area of Merri-bek and Hume.

We are recruiting for a Mental Health Clinician to work within the Acute Community Intervention Service (ACIS) function of the team.

This role is working predominately shift work providing acute assessment and intervention to consumers and their families/carers in both an in-reach and outreach capacity.

The clinicians working within ACIS work with a shared caseload of acute consumers and provide evidence based, recovery focused assessment and interventions to support and improve the lives of the consumers and carers of our service.

The clinicians working within ACIS will also provide short-term intensive support for up to 3 months for appropriate consumers and be identified.

This position involves working shift work 7 days per week between the hours of 8.30am and 10.30pm.

This is a full time ongoing position.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• At least 3 years experience post qualification
• Passion about contributing positively to the lives of consumers with mental illness and their families
• Advanced skills in the provision of Psychiatric assessment and intervention for consumers with a mental illness
• Previous experience working in a community setting in a public mental health service is highly preferable
• Proven Leadership skills
• Ability to work as part of a team but also able to work autonomously
• Advanced Communication Skills and Interpersonal Skills
• Knowledge of the wider MH services in catchment area

We offer:

We offer a range of benefits to support and reward staff both personally and professionally, which includes:

• Health and Wellbeing programs, including our ‘Thrive' program
• Flexibility in the workplace and extra leave options and support
• An inclusive and culturally safe space
• State of the art facilities and campus partnerships
• A commitment to ongoing professional development through our ‘Learning Labs'
• Access to salary packaging, EAP and our online library

Work with us! Northern Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds are encouraged.

All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service's Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza.