Mental Health Allied Health Assistant

2 weeks ago

Camberwell, Australia Epworth Healthcare Full time

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your career in a growing and exciting organisation?

Do you like working with a team of enthusiastic clinicians?

Are you passionate about mental health recovery and working with people to improve their mental and physical health?

Located in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs, the Epworth Clinic - Epworth Camberwell’s mental health service, is dedicated to achieving optimum mental health outcomes for patients. The clinic provides inpatient and day patient programs for adults with specific areas of focus including acute stress reaction, schizophrenia, depression, bipolar affective disorder types one and two, anxiety disorder, eating disorder and borderline personality disorder.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Mental Health - Allied Health Assistant, to join our interdisciplinary Therapy Team at Epworth Clinic, on a casual basis. This role will be to provide group intervention and therapy to patients on our acute inpatient unit who are experiencing mental ill-health. Typically, the role will involve regular weekend shifts (4 hours) and occasional weekday shifts (full day).

This role exposes you to specialist therapeutic care in the private mental health sector, as well as providing the opportunity to contribute to cutting edge service provision at Epworth Clinic. This role is perfect for someone in the early stages of their career or wanting to gain broader experience with recovery and intervention in an inpatient and day program setting.

Having access to ongoing professional development opportunities as well as links to our wider team within our Epworth network, this is a fantastic opportunity not to be missed

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- Experience in working with people from diverse backgrounds at different stages of recovery from mental health challenges
- Confidence in autonomous group facilitation in an inpatient unit setting
- Ability to work effectively in an interdisciplinary team setting with patients and families
- Employee Working with Children Check

Position Description Inherent Requirements

**Qualifications**:

- Successful completion of at least the Certificate 4 (AHA) qualification from a registered training organisation OR

**Additional Information**:
At Epworth, it’s a community. It’s the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient matters. In addition to this, you will have access to:

- Epworth HealthCare offers our employees salary packaging benefits of **$15,900** pre-tax annually, plus an optional **$2,650** meals and entertainment allowance.
- The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
- Career progression opportunities
- Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth

**Enquire/ Apply**

Sound interesting? To apply, click the **I'm Interested** button to attach your CV and cover letter.
- As a child safe organisation, all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you)._
- At Epworth, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all - across race, ability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs - that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth, we care._

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