Lead Clinician

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- Support for career progression and development.
- A strong attitude to teaching and learning
- Excellent clinical exposure across a range of specialties

**The Position**

**Job Reference**: 2368

**Position Title**:Mental Health Lead Clinician
**Classification**:Registered Nurse**NP81-74, Social Worker YC42-45, Occupational Therapist YB20-23
**Salary per fortnight (exc. super)**:$3,385.80 - $4,311.20
**Hours per fortnight**: up to 80 hours (includes an ADO every 4 weeks)
**Employment Status**:Ongoing Full Time and Part Time hours available

**Other Requirements**: 2025 Flu Vaccination

**Closing date**:**12/06/2025

An exciting opportunity to work in a case-management role providing longer term community based mental health treatment and support:

- Join an exciting **face-to-face** case management role delivering long-term community mental health support.
- Bendigo Adult Community Mental Health Team (BACMHT) and is based at the John Bomford Centre.
- Flexible **full-time** or **part-time** positions available to suit your lifestyle
- Work alongside experienced Managers and Consultant Psychiatrists within a supportive team environment
- Conduct comprehensive mental, social, and physical assessments for individuals and their families
- Coordinate care, provide clinical treatment, and deliver essential support services
- Lead the development and monitoring of personalised Recovery Plans
- Carry out thorough risk assessments to ensure client safety
- Collaborate closely with community services and partners to enhance care outcomes
- Enjoy a standard **Monday to Friday** work schedule, **8:30 AM - 5:00 PM**, with an 80-hour Accrued Day Off (ADO)

**Working with Bendigo Health**

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including:

- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Career development and education opportunities
- Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**Your New Division**

The Mental Health Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment area in Victoria stretching from Swan Hill in the north of the state to Gisborne in the south. Family sensitive practice is central to our models of mental health care and best practice ensures the identification, inclusion and support of families, carers and children.

**Bendigo Region**

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 320,000 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.

**Interested?**

We’d love to hear from you Please ensure that you attach a cover letter and an up-to-date copy of your resume.

Need more information? Please contact **Annette Hope** on **5440 6529** for a confidential discussion.

**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.