Child Mental Health Clinician

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

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

Reference: 60500

**About Monash Health**

**About ELMHS**

ELMHS provides a range of mental health services to pregnant mothers, infants, children and adolescents and their families within the Southern Region.

**About the Mental Health Infant, Child, Family Health & Wellbeing Hub (ICFH)**

The Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub is a new service that will provide therapy that considers all aspects of an infant's or child’s life. These services will provide wellbeing support, peer support and care coordination to help with different kinds of challenges including developmental, behavioural, and mental health concerns.?This service has funding for community health, mental health, and family support services. The Infant, Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub will sit alongside?ELHMS - Monash Childrens and?the Child and Family Program - Monash Health Community

The ICFH team will provide mental health consultation, assessment, and treatment to infants, children and families.

The service will comprise a multi-disciplinary team.

**About the Role and You**
- 3 x Permanent fulltime positions (76 hours per fortnight)

Do you enjoy working with parents and infants, children, adolescents and/or young people?

These positions will suit individuals who enjoy working collaboratively with families to address their identified areas of concern. This fast paced team that thrives on multidisciplinary team environment.

The role is that of a mental health clinician with training, qualifications and experience in assessing and treating children 0 - 11 with mental health problems. This position is a Care Coordination/Treating Clinician role in the Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub Mental Health Team, within the broader Early in Life Mental Health Service, Monash Health. The central function of this team is to provide evidence-based mental health consultation, assessment, and treatment to pre
- schoolers, children and adolescents (0-11 years of age) and their families with moderate mental health problems.

The positions are primarily based across mulitple sites within the catchment of Monash Health, working core business hours of 8.30am-5.00pm.

The positions are Allied Health Grade 2 or Psychologist Grade 2 level (YB23, YB50, YC45, PK4).

**Monash Health employee benefits**:

- Salary packaging
- Onsite subsidised staff parking
- Discounted banking (BankVic)
- Onsite Gym
- Access to professional development courses and seminars

**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.

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.