Family and Carer Consultant

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health Full time

Location:
Melbourne

Job type:
Part time

Organisation:
Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health

Salary:
Salary not specified

Occupation:
Health and Allied Health

Reference: 15782

  • Part time ongoing
  • Diverse and supportive environments

Job location
Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.


We address the needs of people experiencing mental health issues, the mental health sector, the justice sector and the general community.

These services are delivered through inpatient services at Thomas Embling Hospital, community services through the Community Forensic Mental Health Service and prison-based services at several locations.

This position will be based at Thomas Embling Hospital and will be required to work across all Forensicare sites.


Forensicare is situated across five sites across Victoria with its largest site being Thomas Embling Hospital,?located in Fairfield, just 15 minutes north of the Melbourne city centre.

Thomas Embling Hospital is a 136-bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care programs. It includes a dedicated women's unit.

About the Role:

  • Address the needs of Families and Carers at Thomas Embling Hospital
  • Provide a Carers perspective to the organisation
  • Liaise with external carer support services.
  • Provide person cerntred care to families and carers

Duties:

  • Co Chair Family and carer committee's
  • Provide Carers perspectives across Forensicares service delivery and design
  • Provide information and service connection to families and carers

About You:

  • Good communication skills
  • Lived experience as a carer or consumer within the mental health system
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation including the Mental health Act.
  • Ability to work with in a Lived Experience Team

What you need:

  • A personal lived experience of being a mental health consumer or carer of a mental health consumer

A culture where people matter.

  • Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of managers and supervisors.
  • Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
  • A leading, multifaceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and teambased supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
  • Access to an employee assistance program an external, confidential, selfreferral employee wellbeing program, for personal or workrelated matters.
  • A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological support, peer support and critical incidence response programs, as needed.

COVID19 & Influenza Vaccination Evidence


Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.

The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.

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