Melbourne Health-North Western Mental Health
INNER WEST AREA MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE - RMH
Adult Community Program - Waratah
Key Clinician/ ENGAGE Clinician (RPN3, OT2, P2, SW2)
Full time, fixed term position 22/08/2016 – 22/08/2017
2 X Positions, each at 80 hours per fortnight
About the Role:
An exciting new role and opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced community clinician to join the Adult Community Mental Health program at the Inner West Area Mental Health Service (IWAMHS) at Waratah Clinic.
This new pilot dual role comprises 0.5 EFT as a Mental Health Clinician embedded within a community tea, which provides a range of acute, brief and longer term interventions to assist people with psychiatric disorders. Consumers and their family/carers will have access to care in the community to meet their needs and preferences, provided by an integrated Community Team in the relevant catchment area. Underpinned by a recovery-oriented approach, the Community Team will be responsible for providing crisis responses, targeted intervention (brief & longer term), and consultative responses to primary health care providers. Clinicians will work in partnership with consumers, carers, PDRSS and other services to provide best practice for recovery, using a range of evidence-based approaches.
The other 0.5 EFT component of the position will have a role in implementing and evaluating a new program called ENGAGE that focusses on providing follow up and linkage for those consumers who present to the RMH Emergency Department, but who do not fit eligibility criteria for adult mental health services.
Enquires to Elle Perry (Community Team 3 Manager) on 9377 3400.
Why Melbourne Health?
Melbourne Health is a values based organisation. A career with us is a rewarding experience, offering great prospects for career diversity and professional advancement. We also offer:
• Salary Packaging
• Reward & Recognition Programs
• Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Programs including; staff gym, staff health service, peer support program and EAP
• Discounted Staff Parking
Successful applicants must provide either a certified copy of a current Working with Children Check Card or evidence of having made an application for a WWC Check Card upon commencement.
At Melbourne Health we are committed to Aboriginal employment and encourage all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply. Karreeta (grow) Yirramboi (tomorrow).We value a diverse workforce and encourage applications from all culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
NorthWestern Mental Health (NWMH) provides a comprehensive, integrated range of services to people with a serious mental illness in North-Western Melbourne. A multi-disciplinary workforce of 1,800 staff provides services through four Area Adult Mental Health Services (North West, Mid West, Inner West and Northern), an Aged Persons’ Mental Health Program and a Youth Mental Health Service – ORYGEN Youth Health. NWMH is a clinical service of Melbourne Health and operates in partnership with Northern Health and Western Health.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory police records check. Successful applicants will also be required to provide a record of Immune Status to vaccine preventable diseases or evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.