Team Leader
Women's Prevention and Recovery Care (WPARC)
- Full time, ongoing role - Based in St Albans
- An exciting opportunity to develop, implement and lead a new innovative service
- Opportunity to develop a positive team culture
Your new team
The Women's PARC is a 12 bed, women's only, PARC service which can accommodate up to three dependent children (under 5 years old) with their mother during their stay. WPARC will provide short term mental health recovery and rehabilitation support to women residing in the North and West metropolitan areas. The service will be operated in partnership with a mental health community support service (MHCSS) and is due to open in mid 2022.
Your new role:
- This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in establishing a new and innovative service in collaboration with the Manager and MHCSS leadership.
- Be a key leader in building a new team and developing positive team culture.
- Provide leadership and share your clinical expertise to support a multidisciplinary clinical and wellbeing team.
- Be involved in service development and lead continuous improvement within the team.
- Co-ordinate and deliver new quality initiatives in collaboration with consumers and carers
About you:
- Experience in leadership positions
- Extensive clinical experience in a public mental health setting/s
- Experience being involved in quality improvement activities and a commitment to delivering high quality, consumer and family centred care
- Ability to engage and collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work with a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership, coaching and support development of staff
- High level of verbal and written communications
This is a multidisciplinary role and is open to Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Occupation Therapists, Social Workers and Psychologists.
Benefit of working with us:
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 and COVID 19 Vaccination prior to commencement.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are highly encouraged to apply along with individuals who have experience in working with ACCHO and Aboriginal Communities and Families.