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5 days ago
Grampians Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Service – Access & Triage Service plays a vital role in connecting the community with mental health services. The service is accessible, intensive, comprehensive, and responsive to the needs of clients, their carers, and families. The team operates 24/7, and this is a permanent full-time position.
The Triage, Intake & Acute Response Team's Core Functions- Telephone Triage & Intake: The team conducts comprehensive mental state and risk assessments of referrals into the service, assigns a triage category according to the State-wide Triage Scale Guidelines 2010, and refers clients to appropriate internal or external providers.
- Mental Health ED: The team provides mental health assessments within the Grampians Health Emergency Department, working collaboratively with emergency services as part of the Mental Health and Police Response (MHaP Response).
- Acute Response Team: The team delivers timely and holistic care to consumers presenting in crisis, incorporating comprehensive assessments and evidence-based treatment, and referring clients to people 18-64 years old in the Ballarat area experiencing acute mental health issues.
The team ensures effective delivery of high-quality psychiatric services, requiring a high level of consultation and liaison between Grampians Health services and community services and agencies.
Key Responsibilities- Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments (including Alcohol and other Drugs) of persons referred for service who are acutely unwell or at risk of becoming so.
- Be willing to work within all three core service delivery areas: Telephone Triage, Acute Response Team, and Mental Health ED/(ECATT).
- Facilitate access to the most appropriate services consistent with the consumer's needs, wishes, and goals after the initial contact.
- Provide short-term clinical treatment plans that target identified biological, psychological, and social needs of patients and their families, including targeted evidence-based treatment strategies consistent with Grampians Health Mental Health Service policies, procedures, and discipline-specific standards.
- Ensure family, carers, or significant others are engaged (where appropriate) in the assessment and treatment of a person.
- Establish and maintain effective and appropriate interagency relationships where necessary and/or as directed.
- Work a roster appropriate to the service's requirements.
- Registered Nurses: Approved degree/diploma/postgraduate certificate from a recognized School of Nursing and current registration within the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
- Social workers: Approved degree from a recognized Educational Facility for Social Workers.
- Occupational therapist: Approved degree from a recognized Educational Facility for Occupational Therapist and current registration within the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
- Psychologist: Approved degree from a recognized Educational Facility and general registration under Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
- Recent clinical experience in a range of mental health settings, including community.
- Experience in Psychiatric Telephone triage and service intake, Crisis Assessment Treatment Team, and Mental Health ED (ECATT) is desirable.
- Well-developed mental health and risk assessment skills.
- Good knowledge of the recovery model and how it informs engagement with consumers and families.
- Good knowledge and understanding of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022.
- Knowledge and experience of community liaison and the development of community networks.
- Knowledge of trauma-informed care.
- Knowledge of substance use and its impact on mental health.
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