Community Mental Health Key Clinician

Job Description
- Community Mental Health Key Clinician

**Req ID**:2116

**Posting Start Date**:16/12/2024

**Advertisement End Date**:16/01/2025

**Work Location**:Waratah Community Health Service

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

**Community Mental Health Key Clinician - RPN4**
- **Waratah Clinic Moonee Ponds**:

- **Full Time Ongoing**:

- **Flexible working arrangements available with opportunity to work 7 day roster with penalties**

**About Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS)**

RMH MHS has an exciting opportunity for developing clinician to deliver excellent interventions and provide community based mental health service. We are seeking dynamic, team oriented clinicians. RMH MHS has a strong team culture and values the development of its workforce. Based in Moonee Ponds, this role is an opportunity to develop skills and experience and contribute to the growth of mental health services in the community.

**Your new role**:

- Develop thoughtful, evidence based recovery plans with consumers and their supports
- Manage a reasonable caseload that allows you to do therapeutic work
- Protected time to provide profession specific interventions
- Provide excellent interventions across different stages of community mental health journey, including acute assessment, ongoing support.
- Demonstrate leadership to drive high standards of interventions and maintain a positive culture in the team
- Actively engage in discipline specific and multidisciplinary team activities and meetings

**About you**:

- Have a qualification as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse, with minimum of 5 years’ experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability
- Experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability is desirable, with training and development provided as required
- Have an interest in supporting consumers prescribed clozapine, their supports such as family, GP’s, support workers, NDIS team
- You are committed to developing your practice as a professional in clinical mental health
- You are motivated to provide leadership within the team, and drive high clinical standards
- You are confident in the provision of support and treatment for people experiencing drug and alcohol related issues and their families.
- Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in computer software use and information technology on the Microsoft Windows platform and ability to learn new programs and navigate databases
- Willing to work in a range of settings and some out of hours shifts
- Hold a current Victorian Driver’s Licence, and ongoing ability to use this form of transport

**Benefit of working with The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services**:
Here at The RMH we strive for excellence with a strong purpose that defines the work we do for our community - _Advancing health for everyone, every day_. This is the Melbourne Way.

This is a role where your passion and expertise can come together to create a truly defining career opportunity. It is a unique opportunity to help us transform the future of the RMH and ultimately ensure we continue to deliver world class healthcare.
- You have access to professional development and career progression in a large, dynamic organisation
- Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
- Salary packaging, great location and close to public transport.

**Interested?**

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.

**Advertisement Contact (Name and phone)**:Joe Judge 0499572990