Mental Health Clinician

Job Requisition ID: 2929- Legal Entity: Monash Health- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168- Employment Type: Full Time- Posting Date: 28 Nov 2024

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**About ELMHS**

Early in Life Mental Health Services (ELMHS) provides assessment and treatment for infants, children, adolescents, young people and their families. We work with the 0-18 age in the Southern Region. We provide a comprehensive assessment service and a range of treatment options including inpatient treatment in times of crisis, community (outpatient) treatment, group programs, family therapy, and specialist services.

**About Us**

Monash Children's Health and Wellbeing Local - an innovative interdisciplinary service to improve the health and wellbeing of children with access to a one stop service for mental health care, health and wellbeing support for the whole family. Monash Health is an appointed lead provider for the new Monash Children's Health and Wellbeing Local (Monash Children's Local), a one-stop service to provide therapy that involves all aspects of an infant's or child's life from 0-11 years. The Monash Children's Local has dedicated funding for community health, mental health, and family support services to enable mental health consultations, assessments, and treatments to infants, children and families in the South-eastern region of Victoria. Designed as a central one-stop location for mental health, health and wellbeing, Victorian families will be able to access a range of specialist medical and allied health services, including paediatricians, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech pathologists including parenting supports.

The Monash Children's Local sits alongside Early in Life Mental Health Service (ELMHS), Monash Children's and the Child and Family Program, Monash Health Community. The first if its kind, this one stop shop service is designed in consultation with local communities, people with lived experience as well as local service providers, including Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations, to ensure service offerings are tailored to local needs and build on existing services and capacity. A unique new service for Victorian families to access specialist mental health treatment, developmental assessments, or paediatrician-led medical care with a renewed innovative focus to enable early intervention and age-appropriate care to meet development and mental health challenges in younger children. "It's a chance for us to change the system and do things differently to make measurable change in children's lives. It will allow us to work together, innovatively, to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families" Victoria McKay, Paediatrician.

**About the Role - Mental Health Clinician, Grade 2 (Full Time)**

The Monash Children's Local Mental Health team will provide mental health consultation, assessment, and treatment to infants, children and their families. An integral part of the Mental Health Clinicians team, the mental health clinician will provide:

- Assessment and treatment of children 0 - 11 with mental health difficulties. This clinician will have training, qualifications and experience in assessing and treating young people who have difficulties with their mental health and wellbeing. They will provide discipline specific assessment, formulation, recommendations and reports.
- Please refer to Position Description for more information.

This full-time position is primarily located at Cranbourne, with spoke sites across the catchment of Dandenong, Casey, and Cardinia.

**About You**

You are seeking a new opportunity to work collaboratively with a passionate multidisciplinary team to deliver a range of specialist medical and allied health services to make a real difference. New year, new career opportunity to be part of a first of its kind, truly innovative program focused on making measurable change to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families. To ensure your success in this role, you will have the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

- Current general registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) with no restrictions or equivalent
- You will have experience in a mental health service and/or extensive experience in a relevant area of practice (e.g. paediatrics, statutory and non-government agencies for this age population)