Acute Intervention Clinician

• Northern Area Mental Health Service (NAMHS) is looking for a Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3, Social Worker Grade 2, Psychologist Grade 2 or Occupational Therapist Grade 2 to join the team!
• Full Time ongoing opportunity!
  
• Working over 7 days, morning/afternoon shifts
• Based in NAMHS Hotham Street

Your new team

 At NAMHS Hotham Street you will find an enthusiastic, friendly, professional group of clinicians of various disciplines. We work hard and we work well as a team. The team respects the professionalism of all staff members and we are encouraged to work autonomously as well as part of our larger tea. Professional development is encouraged and supported

Arrange a site visit and chat with us over a coffee. Once you have seen our service and spoken to our some of our wonderful team members, you will want to be part of something special and help us make a difference

Your success in this role, will be in your ability to

• Provide recovery oriented care including assessment and development of interventions in collaboration with consumers/ carers/families and other service providers including GP’s, NDIS service providers and other stakeholders.
• Provide discipline specific evidence based practice and appropriate treatment options as required.
• Partake in discipline specific clinical supervision and workload management.
• Contribute in ongoing professional development activities and in-service training and sharing new found knowledge with the clinical team.

Your Contribution:

• Experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability.
• Capacity to undertake alcohol and other drug screening, assessment, treatment planning, brief interventions with clients who have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development for self and for team members.
• A current Victorian Driver’s License, and ongoing ability to use this form of transport.

Benefits of working with the RMH:

• You will enjoy excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term!
• Work alongside highly trained staff whilst providing compassionate and supportive care for all members of the community.
• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Salary packaging options, monthly ADOs (That’s an additional day off every month!), onsite car parking, close to public transport

The RMH is 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.

Interested?

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.

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.