Clinical Manager

**Enterprise Agreement / Classification**

Individual Contracts - VARIOUS - XXXX

**Hours per Fortnight**

**Position Summary**

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- A supportive environment for career progression and development
- A strong attitude to teaching and supportive staff
- An opportunity to support the growth in demand for services

**The Position**
- Position Title: Clinical Manager - ECAT Triage
- Classification: NP51, HR25 - HR28, HR9 - HR12
- Salary per hour (exc. super): $59.83 - $65.93 dependent on classification
- Hours per fortnight: 80 (including ADO)
- Employment Status: Full-time ongoing
- Other requirements: COVID-19 Vaccination

**Role Description**
- The Clinical Manager is a senior clinician located within the Bendigo Health Emergency Department, and is accountable for the effective clinical leadership for the Triage & ECAT programs. The Clinical Manager demonstrates superior consolidated clinical skills at a proficient level and the focus practice areas of psychiatric triage, intake, assessment and treatment, and psycho-education The successful applicant will hold qualifications in Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy, with post graduate and extensive psychiatric experience.

**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
- 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 team is part of Bendigo Health’s Mental Health Department. The Enhanced Crisis Assessment and Treatment (ECAT) service is based in the Emergency Department (ED) of the Bendigo Hospital and performs a prompt Psychiatric Assessment and coordination of treatment for persons presenting to ED with mental health concerns. Bendigo Health's Regional Psychiatric Triage Service provides 24 hour, 7 day a week access to mental health services across the Loddon-Campaspe, Southern Mallee Region. Triage also serves as the single point of entry for Bendigo Health Mental Health Services.

**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.

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Bachelor of Nursing, Social Work, or Bachelor of Applied Science with post graduate qualifications in Occupational Therapy
- Essential : Minimum of 5 years full time equivalent post registration experience in Mental Health with experience across a range of settings including psychiatric triage, assessment support and treatment of people with a mental illness and associated complex issues
- Essential : Demonstrated commitment and ability to practice utilising the recovery approach in mental health treatment and support, with a focus on working collaboratively with patients and carers to support progress towards reaching personal recovery goals
- Essential : Demonstrated expert level clinical expertise to initiate and lead evidence-based practice in the assessment, care planning and care delivery to patients with complex mental health needs and challenging behaviours
- Essential : Demonstrated ability to provide expert clinical consultancy, networking and dissemination of key messages across a range of key internal and external stakeholders
- Essential : Demonstrated ability to initiate and lead evidence-based clinical practice development and a commitment to the concept of continuous quality improvement on inpatient settings
- Essential : Excellent knowledge of Mental Health Act Vic 2014 and its associated principles
- Essential