Senior Forensic Mental Health Clinician

Forensicare; Traralgon; On-site; AUD 101,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service seeks a Senior Clinician to provide specialist consultation and manage forensic patients. The role requires a relevant tertiary qualification and forensic mental health experience. Responsibilities include risk assessments, care planning, and developing professional relationships. Competitive salary between $101k - $123k plus relocation support and numerous employee benefits.

Benefits

Relocation support

Professional Development training

Employee assistance program

Discounted fitness access

Refer a friend program

Salary sacrificing options

Social Club benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in forensic mental health including risk assessment.
• Minimum 5 years of post-registration mental health experience.
• Ability to plan and evaluate clinical interventions.

Responsibilities

• Develop professional relationships with mental health services.
• Provide advanced specialist forensic mental health assessments.
• Manage risk assessments and consumer management plans.

Skills

Forensic mental health risk assessment

Clinical intervention planning

Person-centered care

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Job description

Traralgon Location with travel local to area

Relocation support is available to eligible individuals

Multidisciplinary Role – RPN 4, SW 3, OT 3 or P 3

$101k - $123k (Dependant on classification) + Superannuation + Salary Packaging

About the Role

Forensicare’s Regional Forensic Mental Health teams operate in 3 metropolitan and 5 regional/rural regions providing primary, secondary and tertiary consultation, shared care and reports; case management of forensic patients on extended leave from Thomas Embling Hospital; community-based assessment and treatment; and supervision of people on non-custodial supervision orders.

A multidisciplinary team will provide services targeted to people aged 18 and over who are:

• at risk of offending or who are currently exhibiting offending behaviours, including violence and aggression in AMHWS inpatient and other settings
• Exiting Thomas Embling Hospital or prisons
• Presenting to courts, or on court-based orders such as non-custodial supervision orders.

The Senior Clinician will improve outcomes for consumers who have offending risks and mental illness and/or problem behaviours, and the families and carers through:

• Improving access to Forensicare’s specialist forensic mental health services;
• Coordination, referral pathways and transition support between specialist mental health care, correctional services and prisons;
• Improving the capability of key local services to manage offending risks of consumers and appropriately refer consumers for specialist assessment and treatment;
• Pathways into and out of Thomas Embling Hospital, to ensure that inpatient stays are no longer than necessary.

As the Senior Clinician you will:

• Proactively develop and maintain professional relationships with the relevant AMHWS, and forensic clinical specialists.
• Proactively develop links with other mental health and social support services who provide services required to meet the needs of consumers and/or require forensic mental health support.
• Provide specialist primary, secondary and tertiary consultation services for AMHWS and other key stakeholders, including advanced specialist forensic mental health assessments, risk assessments, reports, and advice on the assessment and management of complex forensic mental health issues.
• Contribute to consumer risk management plans in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide case management on a shared care basis with AMHWS, and support Forensicare’s Community Transition and Treatment Program in the case management of consumers on extended care from Thomas Embling Hospital.
• Provide supervision of consumers under a Non-Custodial Order disposition under the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997
• Support people transitioning from prisons to the region

About You:

This is a multidisciplinary opportunity requiring possession of a relevant tertiary qualification and registration or membership with the appropriate Board or Association as a Registered Nurse, Psychologist, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist.

Experience working in forensic mental health including forensic mental health risk assessment, care planning and service delivery.

Demonstrated minimum 5-year post registration mental health experience.

Demonstrated ability to undertake comprehensive psychosocial and risk assessments and to plan, implement and evaluate clinical interventions.

Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery and person-centered and family/carer inclusive care, incorporating consumer and family and carer perspectives into service delivery at both and individual and organisation wide level.

What We Offer:

• Relocation support is available to eligible individuals
• A mental health and wellbeing program provided
• Professional Development training opportunities to suit your career goal
• Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
• Fitness passport – discounted unparalleled access to a wide range of gyms, pools and fitness centres
• Refer a friend program, get up to a $1000
• Salary sacrificing of $9,010 and $2650 meal allowance per annum
• Social Club, access to discounted cinema tickets, AFL games, Zoos, Concerts etc
• Comprehensive Orientation Day before you start, and buddy system available

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.