Mental Health Clinician, Wellness and Recovery

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Medical, Nursing

Reference: 56151

**About Monash Health**

**About the Mental Health Program**

Monash Health Mental Health Program provides a range of community, bed-based and specialist services covering the Casey, Cardinia, Greater Dandenong, Kingston and Monash LGAs - a population of nearly one million. It has an operational budget of $130 million and employs approximately 820 EFT, representing over 1000 staff.

Psychology & Specialist Services (PsySS) in the mental health program runs a number of programs across Monash Health including the Wellness and Recovery Centre. WRC is a specialist eating disorder service offering comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and evidence based treatment to individuals affected by anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and other specified eating disorder (OSFD).

Services include:

- Adults (18-65yo) Inpatient treatment
- Adults (18-65yo) Outpatient treatment
- Day Program (12-24yo)
- Aviary (12-18yo) Inpatient treatment

**About the Wellness and Recovery Day Program**

The Butterfly Day Program commenced operations in 2007, and has a proud history of engaging adolescents and their families in the treatment of an Eating Disorder. Following a review and redesign of the model of care in 2016, a new treatment paradigm has been established that reflects best practice and innovation.

The Wellness and Recovery Centre (WRC) Day Program is a community-based specialised service providing client-centred, holistic support and intervention to individuals (aged12-24 years) suffering from severe and complex eating disorders. The program offers a high level of care to individuals who require more intensive support than can be achieved through usual outpatient treatment. Through a combination of group therapy and meal support, our multidisciplinary team works with participants and their families and significant others to achieve nutritional rehabilitation and normalisation of eating behaviour

**About the Role**
- The Mental Health Clinician position is a 1.0 EFT (full time) ongoing position with the WRC Day Program.
- The Mental Health Clinician operates as part of a multidisciplinary team providing treatment to individuals with eating disorders (12-24years) and their families in a day program context.
- This role would suit an experienced mental health clinician who is passionate about supporting the recovery of individuals with an eating disorder.
- The ability to engage and work with adolescents on a group and individual level will be highly regarded, as will the ability to work with the individuals system. This role will suit someone who wants to be part of the ongoing development of a service to improve the health and wellbeing of people with an eating disorder in a service known for innovation.

**What you need**:

- Current registration with AHPRA (if appropriate)
- Working with Children's Check
- Relevant post-graduate qualifications in mental health
- Proven significant clinical experience
- Australian working rights

**What We Offer**:

- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- mentorship & career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite subsidised staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.