Senior Mental Health Clinician
Orygen Specialist Services – Youth Mood Clinic
- Located at Parkville - Permanent ongoing position, 6 days per fortnight
- Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- You will enjoy excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term!
Orygen Youth Health – has an opportunity for a senior mental health clinician to join the multidisciplinary team at Orygen Specialist services Parkville. The Senior Clinician in the MOOD Stream is a key leadership position within Orygen Youth Health. The successful candidate is expected to have significant expertise in the provision of mental health services to young people with severe mental health issues and is expected to provide psychological treatment and case management to a caseload of clients.
Your new team
Orygen Youth Health (OYH), a program of The Royal Melbourne Hospital's NorthWestern Mental Health Service, provides specialist mental health services for young people aged 15 to 24 and focuses on providing early intervention to young people with severe and complex mental illness. OYH also works alongside Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health which operates four primary mental health care headspace services in the catchment area.
- We are team working together dedicated to striving for the best outcomes for young people
- We enjoy a collaborative working environment as a multi-disciplinary team in an integrated service
- You will help us achieve excellence in care for young persons with a severe mood disorder
- In return, you will be supported to continue to build your leadership skills and become an active part of the leadership team at Orygen.
Your success in this role, will be in your ability to
- Provide clinical leadership in the Youth Mood Clinic to ensure evidence based best practice and contemporary models of care for young people
- Capacity to provide, or develop skills in, integrated assessment, treatment and care for dual diagnosis clients
- Provision of case management or family work to selected clients and associated documentation
- Attendance at clinical review meetings
Your Contribution
- You are an experienced clinician with an interest in working with young people and making a difference.
- A working knowledge of community-based organisations and human services organisations
- Commitment to the development of integrated clinical research within the service
Our Commitment to you
- Work alongside highly trained staff whilst providing compassionate and supportive care for all members of the community.
- We have a commitment to training, education and CPD activities are fully supported.
- You will enjoy excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term!
We believe our success comes from our people. We’re committed to the RMH being a great place to work and a great place to receive care. We have made a long-term commitment to strengthen our organisational culture through leadership, education and empowering our staff to Speak Up for themselves and each other.
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 to us to discuss further
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.