Mental Health Officer
3 months ago
Job Requisition ID: 2458- Legal Entity: Monash Health- Location: Dandenong, VIC, AU, 3175- Employment Type: Full Time- Posting Date: 1 Oct 2024
**Monash Health is a great place to work**
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care across south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations; via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.
To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos**:monashhealth.org/careers**.
**Our Journey - The Mental Health Program**
Monash Health Mental Health Services provides a range of community, bed-based and specialist services covering the Casey, Cardinia, Greater Dandenong, Kingston and Monash LGAs - a population of nearly one million. It has an operational budget of $130 million and employs approximately 820 EFT, representing over 1000 staff. The Program has a number of clinical units including three adult units (Casey, Dandenong and Clayton), an Early in Life Mental Health Service (comprising infant, child, and adolescent services), Young Persons’ Mental Health Service, Psychology and Specialist Services (PsySS), Drug & Alcohol service and Gender Dysphoria Clinic. Southern Synergy supports the Mental Health Programs with specialist research innovations. The program has five PARCS (Prevention and Recovery Care Services) which includes a specialist Women’s only PARCS, an Extended Care PARCS and Youth PARCS. The clinical service is supported by an aligned operational structure to enable the provision of high quality service through the creation of clinical-operational partnerships to support staff, patients, carers and their families, and a strong professional structure that supports the governance of the health professional workforce.
The Secure Extended Care Unit (SECU) is a 50 bed unit based at Dandenong Hospital that provides medium to long-term inpatient treatment and rehabilitation for people who have continuous and severe symptoms of 2 mental illness. Monash Health SECU accepts people from the catchment areas of; Eastern Health, Peninsula Health, Monash Health and Alfred Health. Our collaborative multi-disciplinary team is made up of; Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Clinical and Neuro Psychologists, Exercise Physiologist, Dietician, Music Therapist, Psychiatrists and Mental Health Nurses. The multi-disciplinary team provide treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation programs optimising individual function, for return to community living. NDIS plays an integral part in providing psychosocial support and care for our consumers and families during their stay supporting community transition.
**About the Role**
The Mental Health Officer provides support and delivers care to consumers who are experiencing continuous and severe symptoms of mental illness within the Secure Extended Care Environment. The Mental Health Officer works under the general direction of a Registered Division 1 Nurse or Allied Health clinician, to provide therapeutic or practical programs to consumers. The Mental Health Officer reports to the Nurse Manager.
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Grace Sodomaco on 0401 318 910.
**For the Mental Health Officer Position Description, please **click here**
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.
**How to Apply**
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.
**Applications close on 29th October 2024.
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