Senior Mental Health Clinician

RPN4; OT3; SW3; P3

Permanent, full-time rostered

• Well supported dynamic and challenging practice environments
• Six weeks annual leave with ability to request rosters
• Three work locations with flexible work environments

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

As one of the largest health services in Victoria, and a team of more than 10,000 strong, we provide a comprehensive range of specialist medical, surgical, and mental health services; as well as rehabilitation, aged care, outpatient and community programs. We are a designated state-wide provider for services including trauma, and we lead centres of excellence for tertiary services in several key specialties including neurosciences, nephrology, oncology, cardiology and virtual health.  

Surrounded by a Parkville Precinct of brilliant thinkers, we collaborate to set new benchmarks in health excellence – benchmarks that impact across the globe. While the work we do takes us in inspiring new directions; caring for each other, our patients and consumers is as essential to who we are, as any scientific breakthrough we make. We put people first - leading with kindness and working together, we excel as one Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Your new team

• Develop mental health treatment, management and risk assessment plans within the ED/PARC/MHaP and organise ongoing assistance before the client is discharged.
• Facilitate and encourage continuity of care processes between adult psychiatric inpatient/community, youth, aged care services the emergency department, PARC and Police.
• Provide ongoing assessment, psychosocial interventions for clients
• Collaboratively provide education regarding the management of medication.
• Provide an enhanced Police and Area Mental Health Service capability to respond to incidents

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

• Provision of phone based support and risk monitoring for up to 4 weeks to those who present to SHED with mental health concerns and who are not subsequently eligible for tertiary mental health services.
• Facilitate help seeking and linkage to relevant community based agencies
• Engage client in problem- solving and safety planning
• Provide brief therapeutic interventions

Build and maintain relationships with key community based services:

• Headspace Sunshine, Werribee, Melton, Craigieburn
• Primary Health Care Network
• AOD agencies
• Represent MWAMHS on the Brimbank

Your Contribution:

• Be appropriately qualified and experienced in your discipline with significant post graduate experience
• Extensive experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability
• Experience in providing clinical supervision, and in developing others’ supervision skills
• Demonstrated ability to support the development of clinical staff
• Well-developed skills in writing and an ability to prepare relevant documentation
• 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

Our Commitment to you

Here at The RMH we strive for excellence with a strong purpose that defines the work we do for our community – Advancing health for everyone, every day. This is the Melbourne Way.   

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.

This is a role where your passion and expertise can come together to create a truly defining career opportunity. It is a unique opportunity to help us transform the future of the RMH and ultimately ensure we continue to deliver world class healthcare. 

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.