Suicide Prevention Outreach Clinician

**Employment Type**: Various
**Position Classification**: Registered Nurse 2-8, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Psychologist
**Remuneration**: dependent on classification plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ568351

Applications close: Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm AEST

**Position Title**:S**uicide Prevention Outreach Clinician (Multi disc) - Custodial Mental Health (Various locations) - PFT/PPT**

If you are passionate about delivering healthcare with the greatest impact, then come and join us at the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network (JHFMHN). We are **_Just the Place_** to grow your career and be part of a valued team delivering care where it's needed most

We are a challenging yet rewarding place to take your career even further. With industry-leading safety standards, you can focus on doing your best work alongside skilled colleagues while gaining job training to progress your career.

**The Role**
- The Suicide Prevention Outreach clinician will provide care and follow-up to people who have been identified as experiencing, recovering from or managing suicidal distress. The Clinician will work alongside Custodial Mental Health, Primary Health and Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) to provide support to patients. Support includes conducting suicide risk assessments and developing safety plans, providing assertive follow-up after a crisis, engaging with family members, and collaborative identification of patient centred multi-disciplinary support. The position forms part of the Towards Zero Suicides in Custody Initiative and will trial new approaches to working with patients identified as at risk of suicide in custody.

**Essential Requirements**:

- **For Nursing staff** - Current authority to practice as a Registered Nurse with Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia. Minimum RN Year
- **For Allied Health** - A Bachelor degree or post graduate qualification in allied health professions, including social work, occupational therapy or psychology. You must have at least two years of clinical experience working. Allied Health applicant must have AHPRA registration (Psychologist/Occupational Therapist) or AASW membership (Social Worker)

**Our Service and Team**
- Custodial Mental Health (CMH) is a specialist mental health service within the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network that provides a range of mental health services to adults in NSW correctional centres.
- CMH includes a specialist mental health team with mental health nurses (MHNs), nurse practitioners (NPs), Aboriginal Mental Health Clinicians, psychiatrists, career medical officers (CMOs), and psychiatry registrars who are supported by administrative and managerial staff.
- CMH clinicians work alongside staff from other clinical streams and CSNSW staff, including Psychology, Offender Services and Programs, and Custodial Operations staff in the provision of mental health services. Mental health services begin at the point of reception and continue through to release from custody or transfer to another correctional centre.
- To learn more about careers in our network, please click the links below:_
- Welcome — Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network (nsw.gov.au)_
- Our Locations — Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network (nsw.gov.au)_
- Our Health Services — Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network (nsw.gov.au)_

**Salary and Benefits**

Your salary plus superannuation and leave loading is just the beginning. You'll have access to:

- Access to salary packaging benefits.
- A fitness passport (if you're eligible) + ADOs (If full-time).
- Free on-site parking to minimise your commute time.
- Fantastic training & education opportunities available.

**Diversity and Inclusivity**
- We are an equal-opportunity employer. We employ all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability.
- **_This is also a Targeted Aboriginal Position. Preference will be given to applicants of Aboriginal descent. Exemption is claimed under Section 21 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977_**

**_READY TO APPLY?_**

The first step is to submit your resume and answers to the following targeted questions:

- Discuss and demonstrate the importance of least restrictive care and dignity of risk in a secure setting. How have you approached this problem in the past and what has been an outcome you have achieved?
- It can be confronting to support patients with suicidal thoughts and behaviours, how do/would you balance complex patient needs, operating in a correctional environment and your own self-care and wellbeing?

Need more information?

**Applications Close: Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm AEST