Aged Mental Health Community Clinician

3 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Monash Health Full time

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing

Reference: 59621

**Working in healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.**

**Our Journey
- Aged Persons Mental Health Team**

The community teams have seven services located in two areas, in Kingston and the other is based in Endeavour Hills. The service provides assessment and treatment for people aged 65 years or over, who have a psychiatric disability and/or dementia with associated behaviours of concern requiring specialist treatment.

We currently Full Time & Part-Time opportunities with flexibility to work 1 day from home.

**A Day in the Life**:
The Mental Health Clinician is responsible for a range of clinical mental health services including triage, intake, mental state examinations, risk assessments, care planning, treatment, case management and discharge planning.

The Mental Health Clinician will also act as a resource person to other staff in clinical problem solving and is also responsible for the promotion of Aged Persons Mental Health Services, supporting management in orientation and development of new staff and will carry a portfolio as designated by management.

As a member of a multidisciplinary team, you will also take part in a range of clinical mental health activities and have capacity to provide discipline specific services to clients as required.

**What you bring**

Communication skills and teamwork are extremely important in this role as you will be working in a diverse team. You show a highly developed emotional intelligence within the care and support you provide. Understanding the importance of patient centred care, you have a genuine interest in working and interacting with our diverse teams to deliver high quality, safe patient centred-care.

Your critical thinking, willingness to learn and ability to work cohesively and share knowledge within a team will see you excel in this role whilst we provide you with guidance, support and training to learn the rhythm of the Aged Persons Mental Health Team’s workflows.

You are also passionate about taking part in achieving excellence. Your calm and confident disposition will see you handle the needs of consumers as well as the needs of the teams whilst remaining focused on achieving exceptional outcomes. Your approach is patient centred and are confident working within a multidisciplinary teams.

**_ You will also demonstrate:_**
- AHPRA registered OT or Qualified Social Workers (preferably accredited with AASW) or Grade 3 Registered Psychiatric Nurse
- Case Management or equivalent community mental health experience
- Aged Persons Mental Health experience highly regarded

**In return**

Ours is a connected team with strong shared values and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Ours is also a highly skilled, collaborative and welcoming team where the only limit in your career is you.

There is no better time to join us and here’s just a few reasons why:

- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your clinical skills and knowledge base
- Avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
- Mentorship and career guidance
- Support to attend relevant forums and conferences
- A supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

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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