Eating Disorder Specialist, Elmhs

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training, Health and Allied Health, Family Violence Workers, Medical, Nursing

Reference: 57667

**Working in public mental health has never been more important or meaningful.**

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing over 22,000 people across a range of specialities.

Monash Health is an impressive organisation of seven public hospitals, 21 community health sites, five aged care facilities, university affiliated international research and tertiary education. Monash Health has been caring for, and providing healthcare and aged living solutions, to Victorians for over 100 years. We provide healthcare for the entire lifespan from pre-birth to palliative care and all stages in between.

**About ELMHS**

Early in Life Mental Health Services (ELMHS) provides assessment and treatment for infants, children, adolescents, young people and their families. We work with the 0-18 age group in the Southern Region. We provide a comprehensive assessment service and a range of treatment options including inpatient treatment in times of crisis, community (outpatient) treatment, group programs, family therapy, and specialist services. We work with families in addressing a number of complex issues that families may be experiencing including school refusal, parent/child relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, trauma related issues, self-harm, suicidal thinking, eating disorders, neuro developmental presentations and psychosis.

**Core Community Treatment Team**:

- An exciting opportunity to join a thriving, engaged team of clinicians providing clinic based mental health assessment, formulation and treatment to complex and acute young people in the South East. Exposure to a multidisciplinary team led by consultant psychiatrists, the Core Community Treatment Team provides medium term treatment for children, adolescents and their families in the City of Casey, City of Greater Dandenong, Shire of Cardinia and the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula area. We work collaboratively with families, schools and other agencies to create identified areas for change and work strongly from a relational and systemic framework.

**About the Role**

This role is that of a Senior Mental Health clinician trained in Eating Disorders therapies with training, qualifications and experience in assessing and treating young people with eating disorders and comorbidities mental health problems. This clinician will be skilled in Family Based Therapy (FBT) and other eating disorder treatment modalities.

The role will comprise of the following:

- Clinical face to face work. This will include carrying a limited case load, supporting and mentoring other ELMHS clinicians (chiefly CORE clinicians) who are working with families.
- Secondary consultations within ELMHS, providing supervision, running peer supervision groups to ELMHS staff and providing staff training, working with other parts of the service as required (around eating disorders cases).

**What you bring**

Seeking to grow our dedicated & knowledgeable team, we are looking for you to bring your demonstrated skills and experience in case management and assessment, working with children and families within a multidisciplinary team.

You are adaptable to a changing environment as we work together to deliver first class service. Alongside your caring and engaging manner, you have a positive work attitude, strong communication skills and a strong people-person focus allowing you to engage with our clients (patients) and their families.
- On a personal level, you are_:

- dedicated to safe best practice & quality care
- committed to delivering quality care, service & advocacy
- enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively
- excited to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence
- an advocate of Monash Health’s Strategic Guiding Principles

**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 multidisciplinary team where the only limit in your career is you.

As a valuable member of a wider team, we are committed to working with you to become your professional best. There is access to resources to support you in this position, we offer clinical education sessions, on the job training and career progression to enable you to further develop your Clinical and Leadership skills whilst role modelling excellence and delivering a high standard of client(patient) centred care.

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 acute clinical skills and knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
- mentor