Clinical Nurse Consultant

Contract: Part Time 0.8

Classification: RPN5

Salary: $ pro rata (based on 0.8 FTE)

A career in the forensic mental health sector is diverse, challenging and rewarding. A career at Forensicare will be like no other. If you're passionate about supporting people in their mental health recovery, Forensicare is where you need to be. You will be a part of a caring and supportive team, making a real difference to people living with the dual stigma of mental illness and offending. We approach our work with curiosity and a commitment to understanding the unique needs of our consumers and carers. Working across community, hospital and prison settings, you can learn, apply your specialist skills and advance in your profession. Together, we can contribute to a more connected, compassionate mental health and criminal justice system.

Job location:

Thomas Embling Hospital, located in Fairfield just 15 minutes north of the Melbourne city centre. Due to our announced expansion, we have a need for experienced like-minded professionals to join our team. Thomas Embling Hospital is a secure Mental Health, currently 134 bed, hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation, and continuing care programs. With planned expansion commencing 2024 with significant increase in access to care, we will have a dedicated Women's service and an additional medium secure men's facility.

About the Role:

The Clinical Nurse Consultant: Reducing Restrictive Practices works in partnership with the Unit Manager to engage with individuals and the team in the delivery of quality nursing care and to advance evidence based approaches to care, with specific intentions to improve practices to reduce the use of restrictive practices. The facilitation of practice development approaches can enhance clinical practice by developing team effectiveness and introducing new ways of working, enabling continuous improvement and providing a systematic approach to effect practice change.

Duties:

• Provides high level clinical consultancy to the Unit Manager (UM) in the assessment, planning and delivery of recovery focused nursing care of consumers on the inpatient unit.
• Hold substantial responsibility in the implementation of clinical frameworks such as; Safewards, mental health intensive care framework and reducing restrictive interventions on inpatient settings
• Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary teams to ensure delivery of efficient, effective and responsive services
• Develops and leads a debriefing and review process following each attempt at least restrictive alternatives, to drive continuous improvement and psychological safety

About You:

• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain clinical programs which have implications for all nursing services within the inpatient unit a whole
• Demonstrated ability to provide expert clinical consultancy and dissemination of key messages across a range of key internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated clinical leadership within mental health with proven ability to mentor and develop the mental health nursing workforce within a coaching framework.
• Evidence of knowledge and application of contemporary theories and techniques of practice that underlie mental health care and management of challenging behaviour

What you need:

• Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential

Important Information:

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• Please Note - Applications will be reviewed and interviewed as they are received. Advertising may close earlier than indicated.

A culture where people matter.

• Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.
• Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.
• Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses
• A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
• Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
• Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
• A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.

Eligibility

• Influenza and Immunisation Evidence
• This position is subject to a Police Check

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Forensicare promotes our guiding principles of RESPONSIVENESS, INTEGRITY, IMPARTIALITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT, LEADERSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.