Family & Carer Consultant

16 hours ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Victorian Institute Of Forensic Mental Health Full time

Location: Melbourne

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical and Nursing

Reference: 15550
- Full time position available
- A culture where people care

**Job location**

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.

Forensicare is situated across five sites across Victoria with its largest site being Thomas Embling Hospital,located in Fairfieldjust 15 minutes north of the Melbourne city centre.Thomas Embling Hospital is a 136-bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care programs. It includes a dedicated women's unit.

**About the Role**:
The Family and Carer Consultant will advise management and staff about how aspects of the service may be experienced from the perspectives of carers and families. Support the promotion of rights and responsibilities of carers/families/significant others to this service. Ensure approriate information and support is available and provided to families and carers. Develop working relationships with carers and families in relation to thier individual and direct needs.

**About You**:

- Direct personal experience as a family member or carer of a person with a mental illness.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively convene, facilitate and contribute to meetings and forums.
- Understanding of the issues that families and carers may experience through involvement with the forensic mental health system.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with a range of people and organisations

**A culture where people matter.**
- Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of managers and supervisors.
- Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
- 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.
- 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 support, peer support and critical incidence response programs, as needed.Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of three COVID-19 Vaccination prior to commencing work at Forensicare. Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. All applicants will also be required to provide evidence of a flu vaccination.

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