Lead Clinician

Location: North West Region | Bendigo

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Bendigo Health

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**Work in an environment that offers**:

- A supportive environment for career progression and development
- An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
- An opportunity to further your career

**The Position**

**Position Title**: Lead Clinician, Older Persons Community Mental Health Team

**Classification**: Registered Nurse Grade 3, Occupational therapist Grade 2 & Social worker Grade 2

**Salary per hour (exc. super)**: dependant on qualifications

**Hours per fortnight**: 80 (including ADO every 4 weeks)

**Employment Status**: Full Time, Fixed term
- 12 Months

**Other requirements**: COVID-19 Vaccination (3 doses)

**Role Description**

The Older Persons Community Mental Health Team provide community based mental health assessments, treatment and support to patients who are aged over 65 years suffering from mental illness or aged over 65 and suffer from a mental illness complicated by a neurodegenerative disorder and/or issues of ageing and/or severe comorbid physical illness.

The successful applicant will provide mental, social and physical assessment, care coordination, clinical treatment and support for consumers, their families and carers. In conjunction with the manager and senior clinicians, the successful applicant will support and/or provide a range of bio-psychosocial treatment modalities including individual, family and group settings in the community.

An exciting opportunity to identify and co-ordinate key community agencies and service providers involved in the provision of recovery, support and discharge planning consistent with the patients and carers needs.

**Bendigo Health**

Our 700 bed state of the art hospital was built in 2017. We are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. We have all of the latest technologies allowing our 5000 staff to deliver _Excellent Care to Every Person, Every Time._ Remuneration is in accordance with Victorian Public Health Enterprise Agreements and generous salary packaging arrangements are offered to all staff. Bendigo Health offer:

- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Retention bonus of up to 2k annually for workers in Mental Health
- Salary Packaging
- Financial relocation support available for eligible applicants
- Reimbursements for the cost of obtaining any required pre-employment checks (Police Check, WWCC and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check)
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Access to recommended immunisations
- Smoke free environment

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**The Team**

The Mental Health Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment area in Victoria stretching from Swan Hill in the north of the state to Gisborne in the south. Family sensitive practice is central to our models of mental health care and best practice ensures the identification, inclusion and support of families, carers and children.

**Bendigo Region**

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 300,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.