Dual Diagnosis Clinician

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing

Reference: 54730

**About Monash Health**

**About the team**

The Casey Intensive Mental Health Community Care Package Team is anticipated to be made up of experienced mental health clinicians offering speciality support to consumers with identified intensive mental health needs in the community. This team would be engaged in providing care consistent with the Intensive Community Mental Health Packages guidelines from the Victorian Department of Health.

This multidisciplinary team will be developed to provide assertive community based mental health assessment and treatment for consumers living in the Casey Adult Mental Health Services catchment area and currently engaged with our Continuing Care Teams.

The position is also required to provide clinical supervision to identified staff within your identified discipline within Casey Adult Mental Health Services.

**About you**

The incumbent for this position is a Social Worker, Nurse or Occupational Therapist with experience working with consumers who have a Dual Diagnosis of Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs. The clinician is required to have established skills in assessing and planning interventions for consumers with complex needs. Clinicians will collaboratively engage with consumers, carers and services providers who are currently linked with our mental health program case management services. Consumers will have a history of frequent presentations and readmissions to acute services. A multidisciplinary approach will be required to work in partnership with the consumer and existing treating team to identify, formulate and support identified recovery goals and recommended interventions.

This job will be is based in the Casey area but the successful applicant may also be required to work from bases in Narre Warren, Berwick or Pakenham.

The clincian will provide discipline specific assessment and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team supporting consumers, carers and case management teams. Consultation with all parties should see the development of a collaborative plan of recovery focused goals and interventions with support provided in achieving a positive outcome for consumers and carers experiencing complex mental health issues.

This care should be provided consistent with the National Standards (Second Edition), the Mental Health Act 2014 and the Monash Health values with a focus on recovery oriented care.

**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.