Clinical Support Assistant

Location: Melbourne

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Forensicare

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 15870
- Full time ongoing position
- Classification: MHO2 - Annual Salary from $61,000.00 + Super
- Based at Thomas Embling Hospital
- Great Salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
- Free onsite parking
- A culture where people care

**Job location**

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria. Forensicare is situated across five sites across Victoria with its largest site being Thomas Embling Hospital,?located in Fairfield?just 15 minutes north of the Melbourne city centre.?Thomas Embling Hospital is a 136-bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care programs. It includes a dedicated women's unit.

**About the Role**:
The role of Clinical Support Assistant (CSA) is to support staff in maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment, with emphasis on reducing Occupational Violence and Aggression (OVA) within Thomas Embling Hospital whilst working under the supervision of a Registered Psychiatric Nurse 3 (RPN3). The CSA is a member of the multi-disciplinary team who will provide a local response within a trauma informed care framework to incidents, maintaining general safety within the service. The CSA will be required to work rotating rostered shifts including weekends and nights shift to meet service needs. The position requires a particular focus on the maintenance and promotion of procedural, physical and relational security.

**Duties**:

- Work under the supervision of the RPN3 in the prevention, early intervention and management of occupational violence aggression within the service
- Respond to critical incidences within T.E.H and support seclusion reviews
- Assist staff, visitors, consumers who may be confronted by a hostile or aggressive situation under the direction of the RPN3
- Contribute to relational security, risk assessments, and management planning by identifying and reporting issues to RPN3

**About You**:

- Demonstrated physical and mental capability and capacity to manage and prevent occupational violence and aggression by passing a selection clinic including an annual competency based assessment in de-escalation and physical restraint techniques
- Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery
- Demonstrated understanding or experience in building positive relationships with consumers
- Demonstrated understanding of mental health issues and ability to work within both an acute and rehabilitation mental health setting

**What you need**:

- Qualifications in Security or Corrections Level 3 certificate or the equivalent thereof
- Good written/verbal skills and sound computer and keyboard skills
- Previous experience working in a mental health, corrections or security settings would be desirable

**A culture where people matter.**
- Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of managers and supervisors.
- Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
- A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
- Access to an employee assistance program - an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
- A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological support, peer support and critical incidence response programs, as needed.

**COVID19 & Influenza Vaccination Evidence**

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.