Mental Health Clinician

-Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan
Job type: Full time, Part time
Organisation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing
Reference: 71461

**Mental Health Clinician - HYPE Stream,**

**Orygen Specialist Program (formerly Orygen Youth Health)**
- ** The HYPE Stream is searching for an Allied Health Grade 2; Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist or Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3 to be their Mental Health Clinician**:

- ** Provide high-quality clinical care based on clinical experience working with young people with serious mental illness**:

- ** Based in Wyndham/Hoppers Crossing with some time spent in Sunshine to begin with.**:

- **The position is available both Part-time or full time - Ongoing**

**The Royal Melbourne Hospital**
- As one of the largest health services in Victoria, and a team of more than 10,000 strong, we provide a comprehensive range of specialist medical, surgical, and mental health services; as well as rehabilitation, aged care, outpatient and community programs. We are a designated state-wide provider for services including trauma, and we lead centres of excellence for tertiary services in several key specialties including neurosciences, nephrology, oncology, cardiology and virtual health.
- Surrounded by a Parkville Precinct of brilliant thinkers, we collaborate to set new benchmarks in health excellence - benchmarks that impact across the globe. While the work we do takes us in inspiring new directions; caring for each other, our patients and consumers is as essential to who we are, as any scientific breakthrough we make. We put people first - leading with kindness and working together, we excel as one Royal Melbourne Hospital.

**Your new team**
- Orygen Specialist Program (OSP), a program of NorthWestern Mental Health, provides specialist mental health services for young people aged 15 to 24 and focuses on providing early intervention to young people with severe and complex mental illness
- OSP also works alongside Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health which operates four primary mental health care headspace services in the catchment area
- Multidisciplinary teams deliver individually tailored services that comprise assessment and crisis intervention, case management, medication, psychotherapy, family support, inpatient care, group work, vocational support, educational assistance, and intensive outreach
- Specialist clinical streams offer targeted interventions for psychotic disorders (including young people at ‘ultra-high risk’ of psychosis), mood disorders, and personality disorders; and also manage the co-morbid substance use disorders, eating disorders, and neurodevelopment disorders
- A forensic stream is under development
- Streams are supported by the Psychosocial Recovery program and the Community Development program

**Your success in this role, will be in your ability to**
- provide comprehensive clinical case management and psychological therapy to clients of the HYPE Stream
- The Helping Young People Early (HYPE) program was established in 1999 and provides an evidence-based early intervention service for young people experiencing some or all of the problems that are referred to as borderline personality disorder (BPD) and other personality disorders and who may also present with other co-occurring mental health difficulties.
- HYPE’s model of Relational Clinical Care comprises assertive clinical case management, general psychiatric care, individual psychotherapy (using Cognitive Analytic Therapy), family work and other supports such a vocational-educational support. Applicants do not have to have training in cognitive analytic therapy and will receive training and supervision for such while in this role.
- The Mental Health Clinician works within a specialist multidisciplinary team environment and is responsible for devising, implementing and evaluating an appropriate treatment plan for each young person and their family. This involves provision of highly skilled clinical assessments, psychological treatments, home-based assertive outreach to facilitate engagement and case management tasks, such as liaison with other agencies and advocacy on behalf of the young person
- You will be expected to function autonomously, carry a caseload of clients, participate in clinical review meetings and practice according to the philosophy and protocols of the service
- Provide interventions to clients from a range of Clinical Streams and spend time working within other programs such as the Youth Access Team or the Outreach team

**Your Contribution**
- Qualifications in a relevant area of practice
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in provision of mental health treatment, including with young people
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and respectfully with young people & families
- Ability to work independently and as an effective member