Clinical Access Lead

**Title**:Clinical Access Lead**:

- Requisition ID: 2887
- Location: Ringwood East, VIC, AU, 3135
- Job Posting Date: 24 Feb 2025

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**Clinical Access Lead (Registered Psychiatric Nurse/ Occupational Therapist/ Clinical Psychologist/ Social Worker**
- Permanent Part Time | 0.8 EFT | Experience work-life balance
- Forest Hill & Ringwood | Parking available onsite
- Experience career progression at a values-based organisation

**Eastern Health**

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community. Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**About the role**

This position is established within the Eastern Health Access Service. The integrated Access service provides:

- Crisis Assessment and Treatment Services (CATT) within the community incorporating early discharge management, assessment and management of newly referred clients as well as after hour treatment and crisis support to clients of community mental health services.
- Telephone Triage is the Eastern Health 24 hours telephone triage referral, advice and support service.
- Mental Health and Police (MHaP) response is a 7 day a week afternoon/evening outreach service working in collaboration with Victoria Police providing acute assessment and advice to Victoria Police as an alternate to transfer of clients to the emergency department under section 351 of the MHA.
- Emergency Department Response providing Mental Health and/or AOD assessment and interventions. This assessment includes immediate assessment and risk management plans for persons presenting with Behaviours of Concern. Our ED Response is required to provide comprehensive mental health assessment, treatment and planning for those suffering from acute mental health issues.
- Ambulance Victoria (AV) Teleprompt response is a 7 day a week specialist mental health clinician who works in the AV call centre and responds to calls from AV staff onsite to provide mental health assessments with the aim of avoiding ED presentations.

**About you**
- Registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia, Australian Health Practitioners Registration Agency
- Current valid driver’s license in Australia

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
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