Mental Health Clinician

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $50 - $55

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 2038

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee? _**

**Mental Health Clinician - Specialist Eating Disorder Service**
- **Permanent, full-time based in Heidelberg with a monthly ADO**:

- **Open to Mental Health Professionals with following qualification: Registered Nurse (Div1), Clinical Psychologist, Social Work, Occupational Therapist**:

- **Member of the North East Area Mental Health Service (NEAMHS) Continuing Care Service (CCS)**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the Mental Health Division**

The Mental Health Division is committed to promoting the highest levels of care for our patients. In realising this goal, the department will lead and excel in research, teaching and the use of person-centred evidence-based practice. The department provides services on all three campuses of Austin Health, from the Emergency Department through to bed-based services and ongoing ambulatory care.

**About the role**

CCS is a multidisciplinary team of highly passionate, experienced, supportive, collaborative and enthusiastic mental health professionals. We are creating a new Specialist Eating Disorder Service - Adult & Older Adult Mental Health Division. Our values underpin everything we do. You will form solid working-relationships within the pre-existing community teams and foster strong therapeutic relationships with your clients & their families/carers.

A regular day will see you:

- Provide a specialist eating disorder lens to our Adult & Older Adults living with complex mental health needs
- Work within an established community mental health team, to enhance care provision for peoples living with eating disorders
- Help build our Specialist Eating Disorder Service
- Deliver evidenced based eating disorder focussed assessments and interventions
- Bring your expert opinion and experiences to our team to help make a difference
- Assess and treat our clients, liaising as appropriate with family members and caregivers to promote patient care
- Collaborate with multiple teams across the division and wider community
- Support the care and recovery of peoples living with eating disorder diagnoses and presentations
- Advocate for your clients right to access safe and timely care, at the right place at the right time

**About you**

As the Mental Health Clinician (Eating Disorder), you will be someone who has excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care. You'll bring energy and drive to your work, and have a keen interest in developing your skillset.

To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

- Flexible thinking, creative ideas and a passion for working within a strong multidisciplinary team to make a real impact on clinical outcomes
- Experience and skills in delivering evidenced-based assessment and treatment of eating disorders
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a relevant mental health setting - including eating disorder inpatient experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of recovery and collaborative clinical practice.
- A working knowledge of the Mental Health & Wellbeing Act (2022), the Carer Recognition Act (2012), and Chief Psychiatrists Guidelines

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: 16 February 2025