Hope Clinician

Location: Western Region | Melton

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Western Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing

Reference: 51701

An opportunity to join Western Health Mental Health and Wellbeing Team based in Melton.

There are both full or part time roles available in our newly established HOPE (Hospital Outreach Post-suicidal Engagement) team in the Melton Community Health building. HOPE provides support to individuals post a suicide attempt or to those displaying serious suicide ideation, intent or planning. HOPE supports clients for a period of 12 weeks, providing assertive and coordinated care. This is role where clinicians deliver evidence based psychological interventions to at-risk clients and their families/significant others.

This is a multidisciplinary role and is open to Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Psychologists.

**To be Successful in this Role, you will**:

- Lead with kindness, role modelling open communication and a desire to support and enhance clinical care across the team
- Contribute effectively to a multidisciplinary team with a genuine commitment to working within a client-centred framework
- Have knowledge and practice in delivering brief therapeutic interventions
- Have consolidated skills in assessing mental state and risk
- Have an interest and expertise in the area of suicide prevention
- Be collaborative, responsive and empathic
- Have the capacity to consult, liaise and negotiate sensitively with clients, their family or carers, treatment teams and community services

**About Us**

Our workforce of over 11,000 employees are driven by our values of ‘Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Safety’ (CARES). We value our people and provide them the opportunity to grow and develop. Our teams are friendly and supportive, ensuring we deliver a safe, person-centred and connected patient experience.

Western Health is in a period of rapid growth. Our services comprise of four acute public hospitals: Footscray Hospital, Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women's and Children's), Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh & Melton Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Day Hospital, Hazeldean, Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care, as well as community health centres in Melton, Caroline Springs and Bacchus Marsh and a range of community-based services. We care for a diverse community of more than 1 million people with complex care needs ranging from Neonates to Geriatrics.

Our employees enjoy a wide range of benefits such as:

- Professional development support
- Career advancement opportunities
- Salary packaging including novated vehicle leasing
- Work-life balance

Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.