New Roles

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan, Melbourne | Cranbourne

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training, Health and Allied Health, Family Violence Workers, Medical, Nursing

Reference: 61435

**Monash Health Provider of new one-stop Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub for Families.**

**About Infant Child Family Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub**

**Monash Health appointed lead provider for the newInfant, Child Family Health and Wellbeing Hub, a one-stop service dedicated to providing therapy that involves all aspects of an infant's or child’s life from 0-11 years. TheMonash Health Hub has funding for community health, mental health, and family support services to enable mental health consultations, assessments, and treatments to infants, children and families in the South-eastern region of Victoria. Designed as a central one-stop location for mental health, health and wellbeing, Victorian families will be able to access a range of specialist medical and allied health services, including paediatricians, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech pathologists and offer parenting supports. The Monash Health Hub will sit alongsideEarly in Life Mental Health Service (ELMHS) - Monash Childrens and the Child and Family Program - Monash Health Community.**:
The new** Monash Health Mental Health & Wellbeing **service will be a **Hub **and Spoke model. The **Hub **will be centrally located at **Cranbourne**,with spoke sites across the catchment of Dandenong, Casey, and Cardinia and will be part of a newly co-designed service with a Transdisciplinary/ Multidisciplinary service.

Victorian families will have access to specialist mental health treatment, developmental assessments, or paediatrician-led medical care with a renewed innovative focus to enable early intervention and age-appropriate care to meet development and mental health challenges in younger children. The first if its kind one stop shop service will be designed in consultation with local communities, people with lived experience as well as local service providers, including Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations, to ensure service offerings are tailored to local needs and build on existing services and capacity.
- “What excites me about the Hub is the chance for truly innovative, interdisciplinary work to improve the health of kids and families. It's a chance for us to change the system and do things differently to make measurable change in children's lives. It will allow us to work together, innovatively, to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families”_ **Victoria McKay, Paediatrician**

**New Hub Opportunities Now Available**

**Monash Health One Stop Shop Mental Health Hub **will deliver critical, community-based support for mental health care and wellbeing support for the whole family.

Exciting opportunity to innovate the support and care children and their families will receive with renewed access to a range of specialist medical and allied health services for treatment, care and support they need, when they need and closer to home.

**New career defining positions fundamental in the care for young children and their families now available**:
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- **Paediatric Speech Pathologist - Rotational Program** (Grade 1)
- ** Paediatric Occupational Therapists **(Grades 1/2/3)
- ** Aboriginal Family Support Worker**:

- ** Mental Health Team Leader**:

- ** Mental Health Clinicians**:

- **OT/SP/SW/Psych/Nursing** (Grade 2 AH / Grade 3 Nursing)
- ** Mental Health Clinician - OT/SP/SW/Psych **(Grade 2)
- ** Mental Health Clinician - Speech Pathologist **(Grade 2)

**Flexible Part or up to Full Time roles available located at Cranbourne with travel to spoke sites, as required.**

**Refer to relevant Position Description for more information**

**What you Bring**

To ensure your success in this role, you will have the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

- Refer to relevant Position Description for required Medical and/or Allied Health Qualification
- Australian working rights
- Current general registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) - Occupational Therapy, with no restrictions
- Understanding of current, relevant theory, practice knowledge and evidence in clinical practice
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary assessment and treatment group setting
- Dedicated to safe best practice and quality care
- Committed to the delivery of patient centred care and patient advocacy
- Enthusiastic, compassionate and able to work collaboratively across multiple disciplines Current Drivers Licence

In return, you’ll be welcomed into a positive and supportive environment, passionate about delivering excellence in Community Health, to support children and their families across a diverse and growing local community.

This is truly a unique and historic career opportunity to actively contribut