Mental Health Occupational Therapy or Social Work

2 months ago

Upper Ferntree Gully, Australia Eastern Health Full time

**Title**:Mental Health Occupational Therapy or Social Work Graduate

**Location**:Upper Ferntree Gully, VIC, AU, 3156**Job Posting Date**:22 Sep 2024Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you

**Occupational Therapy and Social Work - Graduate Positions - Mental Health & Wellbeing Program**:

- Permanent, Full Time positions - Rotations across sites and settings
- Fully supported learning and development program in mental health

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community. Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.**About the role**
The Mental Health & Wellbeing Program at Eastern Health and the learning and teaching directorate work in partnership to deliver an extensive range of highly regarded transition to practice programs including an allied health mental health transition to practice program. Eastern Health was the organization selected by the Department of Health to develop the state-wide model and implementation resources for allied health mental health graduates as part of the implementation of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victorian Mental Health Services interim report. The learning and teaching directorate and the Mental Health & Wellbeing Program will continue to work in partnership to deliver this model based on the best available evidence and sector wide consultation for graduate allied health programs.- The Occupational Therapy and Social Work graduate positions in the allied health mental health transition to practice program at Eastern Health provide a unique opportunity for you. The positions are supported by a graduate program with a strong focus on growth learning, reflective practice, supervision and self-care.- Benefits of the program include:

- Two diverse rotations across the Mental Health & Wellbeing Program at Eastern Health with opportunities available in child and youth, adult and older adult mental health.
- Support from a more senior OT/SW on the team and an OT/SW educator to support your learning and development.
- Be part of a community of over 250 allied health staff in the Mental Health & Program at Eastern Health.
- Permanent employment at Eastern Health with transition to an ongoing role within the Mental Health & Wellbeing Program at the end of your graduate year.
- Engagement in a second year early career learning and development program.
- Extensive professional development opportunities including a targeted internal formal learning and development program, individual and group supervision, individualised learning plans designed to meet the competencies required for an OT/SW to work in the mental health and wellbeing system.
- About you
To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia, Australian Health Practitioners Registration Agency or
- Hold a degree qualification in Social Work that has been approved by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) for practising membership as a Social Worker.
- Relevant theoretical knowledge, skills and/or experience in the provision of evidence based occupational therapy/social work assessment and interventions in a mental health setting.
- Understanding of, and/or experience in delivering, recovery oriented mental health practice.
- Ability to engage consumers, families, carers and supporters in the development and implementation of individualised plans designed to promote, foster and sustain personal recovery.
- A commitment to working with consumers, families, carers and supporters from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds and to providing services that are family and gender sensitive.
- Knowledge of the mental health sector, including roles and workings of mental health teams and relevant community resources and services to support people with mental illness.
- Ability and commitment to work collaboratively with consumers, carers, supporters the multidisciplinary team including the lived experience workforce and external agencies.
- Commitment to supervised and reflective practice, lifelong learning and further development.
- Computer literacy and embracing of health technologies and informatics.
- High level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
- Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills with consumers, their families and all health care professionals including effective conflict resolution and negotiation.
- Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An of

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