Secu Diversion Outreach Clinician

**About Northern Health**:
As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.

Northern Health is located in the rapidly growing northern suburbs with projected growth the biggest in the state. With a booming, culturally rich and diverse community, and less than an hour’s drive from the CBD, Melbourne’s North is fast becoming the place to be

**The Role**:
The SECU Diversion Service Clinician provides intensive psychosocial recovery-focused support on an assertive outreach basis to consumers who have a psychosis and/or mood disorder, a consistent pattern of problematic engagement or significant treatment resistance, and who are currently assessed as high risk as a result of the impact of their mental disorder**.**

The role of the SECU Diversion outreach clinician will utilise an intensive case-management style approach for treatment engagement, care and social participation of high-risk/high-need consumers. The clinician aims to strengthen the capacity of community teams to effectively manage consumers with extremely severe symptomatology and associated high-risk behaviours in the community. It enables the consumer to be adequately and safely supported in the community while they wait for admission, are working toward a discharge from a Secure Extended Care Unit (SECU) or as an alternative response to admission to a SECU.

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

- Experience and good working knowledge of working in mental health.
- Clinical expertise in assessment, risk management and decision making in the delivery of treatment and interventions to clients, maximizing participation in collaborative recovery and wellness planning.
- Specialist consultation and appropriate evidenced based interventions and intensive support to assist in better outcomes for clients and families/carers.
- An understanding of the philosophical foundations, processes and environments that support recovery;
- An ability to support and facilitate consumers’ use of resilience and strength so that they might experience positive self-image, hope and motivation, and be supported to live the lifestyle and the culture of their choice;
- Demonstrated skills in liaise and work collaboratively alongside IPU, ED, EMH, CL, PACER, CCU, PARC and Community Teams

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**Next Steps...**

If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the **'Apply'** button and follow the prompts.

For further details, please refer the the Position Description. Alternitively, please contact: Fiona Jeal SECU Program Manager or Moisis Moisis SECU Team Leader on 7025 0800

**Why work at the Northern Health?**

We offer a range of benefits to support and reward staff both personally and professionally, which includes:

- Health and Wellbeing programs, including our ‘Thrive’ program
- Flexibility in the workplace and extra leave options and support
- An inclusive and culturally safe space
- State of the art facilities and campus partnerships
- A commitment to ongoing professional development through our ‘Learning Labs’
- Access to salary packaging, EAP and our online library

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- Work with us Northern Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds are encouraged._
- All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service’s Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza and Covid-19._