Psychosocial Support Worker

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 61648

**Exciting opportunity to provide Psyhco-social support under the HOPE team.** The position entails training under the Beyond Blue model to provide Psycho-social support for people who are identified as having presented with a suicidal or self-harm attempt, or suicidal or intentional self-harm ideation under the Monash Adult Mental Health Program Hospital Outreach Post-suicidal Engagement (HOPE).

The Psychosocial support role provides non-clinical care and practical support to individuals for up to 12 weeks following a suicide attempt.
- Opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support the development and delivery of a psychosocial support service for consumers as part of the HOPE program
- Play a key role in the supporting the prevention of suicide initiative
- Enviable Professional development opportunities available

**About our HOPE at Monash Health**

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We provide safe, high-quality care to one-quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life.
More than 22,000 of us work at over 40 care locations across south-east Melbourne, including seven hospitals and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities.

Monash Adult Mental Health Program Hospital Outreach Post-suicidal Engagement (HOPE) initiative aims to provide follow-up care and support for people who traditionally would not have received such intervention immediately after hospital discharge, with broader referral pathways and tailored psychosocial support. The aim of the initiative is to prevent avoidable suicide attempts and reduce the number of completed suicides by providing targeted psychosocial support services to a cohort of people in an assertive manner in the community for up to 3 months from the time of discharge Monash Health is excited to announce new Deputy Nurse Manager positions within its Emergency Departments

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing over 22,000 people across a range of specialities.

Monash Health Emergency Departments treat over 150,000 emergency patients a year at Monash Medical Centre Clayton campus, Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital. Patients have access to a full range of treatment options, including intensive care.

**About The Role**

In this role you will provide community based support that enables consumers to build self-resilience and capacity to self-manage social, economic and environmental factors that contributes to suicidality.

Provide support to the consumer through a meaningful approach to care that assists consumers to stay safe and connect with essential services in the first 12 weeks following discharge from hospital after a suicide attempt or a suicidal crisis.

The psychosocial support worker provides tailored assertive outreach to support the individual to recover from a crisis In collaboration with the consumer, identify need and provide information, as well as link the consumer with essential services in the first 12 weeks that is meaningful to the consumer

Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a positive and safe experience to at-risk consumers.
Contribute to identifying safety plan with consumer while on HOPE
Develop a sound understanding of crisis intervention and management skills, and the ability to escalate concerns if deterioration occurs.
Respond to and support the psychosocial needs of consumers of the HOPE program as identified in collaboration with the consumer.

**About You**

You have an ability to build supportive and respectful relationships with individuals experiencing distress, including family members and carers.

You have demonstrated experience in, and sound understanding of the personal, family and social issues associated with suicidal ideation and attempts, including groups identified to be at increased risk of suicide or experiencing a suicidal crisis.

You have the ability to establish strong, effective working relationships. I.e. Ability to liaise, consult and

work with a broad range of consumers, carers/families, health professionals, community
agencies and organizations

**You Are Also**:

- committed to listen with empathy and support people to discover their own solutions.
- dedicated to safe best practice & quality care
- committed to delivering patient centred care & a patient advocacy
- enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively

**What You Need**:

- Welfare worker (aligned to position description)
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of person-centred and trauma-informed
- Understanding of the suicide prevention sector and ability to utilise prevention support such crisis response, safety planning and managing risk
- Dem