Community Mental Health Clinician

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 57875
- Want to work in a Community Aged Mental Health Team?
- Want to expand your skills?
- Want a more challenging role?

**About Monash Health**

**About Aged Persons Mental Health Teams**

The community teams have seven sub-teams located in two service areas, one which is based in Endeavour Hills and is known as the Dandenong Aged Persons Mental Health Team (APMHT). The other is based in Kingston Centre and is known as the Middle South Aged Persons Mental Health Team (APMHT). The service provided assessment and treatment for people aged 65 years and over, who have a psychiatric disability and/or dementia with associated behaviours of concern requiring specialist treatment.

**About the Role**
- Opportunity exists for a suitably experienced, Occupational Therapist, Registered Nurse or Social Worker
- Great way to experience working with a community team
- Monday - Friday 8.30am - 5pm
- Monash Health, Dandenong Aged Persons Mental Health Team (located at Endeavour Hills)
- Diverse geographical area and client population
- as a member of a multidisciplinary team the Mental Health Clinician will consult with other staff members on specialist matters, in relation to client needs

Our Mental Health Clinicians are responsible for a range of clinical mental health services including:

- triage
- intake
- comprehensive mental health assessments including mental state examinations and risk management
- care planning and treatment
- clinical case management
- education
- discharge planning

This position also provides discipline specific services to clients as required.

Working within our diverse geographical area, you will enjoy the challenges of working with the complexities of mental health and making a positive difference every day.

**About You**

If you take your career goals, need for job satisfaction and personal growth seriously, then so do we. Working with us offers you certain advantages. Your experiences with us will be varied and stimulating, giving you true diversity in your job and exposure to situations that broaden your experience and equip you for the career paths ahead. You will have the support of our professional development programs. allowing you to be your best.

Additionally you will possess:

- AHPRA registered Occupational Therapists or
- Qualified Social Workers (preferably accredited with AASW) or
- AHPRA registered nurses (with post graduate qualifications in Mental Health)

You will be committed to recovery-focused care, a strong team player, and willing to contribute to the continual improvement of the service.

Monash Health will offer:

- salary packaging
- friendly and supportive culture
- opportunity to experience various teams
- on-going supervision and professional development

**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.