Mental Health Clinician - Whittlesea, Australia - Northern Health

Northern Health

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Whittlesea, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Location:
North East Region | Whittlesea

Job type:
Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation:
Northern Health

Salary:
$86,000 - $99,000

Occupation:
Health and Allied Health

Reference: 40331

We currently have ongoing positions available to work on a 7 days rotating roster with AM and PM shift - No night shifts.

Acute Community Intervention Clinician:
Ongoing Full-Time position. 7 days a fortnight. Based at Mill Park

Join the Northern Area Mental Health Service today

Exciting opportunities exist for enthusiastic Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists or Mental Health Nurses to join the team Noogal Clinic Community Team at Northern Health.

Noogal Clinic is an integrated community mental health service which provides recovery oriented mental health care to adults aged 16-65 years old within the Northern catchment.

The team works with consumers residing in the community throughout the continuum of their care.

Clinicians at Noogal Clinic use their clinical mental health knowledge, skills, expertise to the assessment, delivery of support, treatment and provision of targeted interventions to the consumers of the service.

Whether your preference is to work full time or part time, we'd love to hear from you to discuss the roles we have available.

The Role:

Provide timely comprehensive recoveryoriented assessment, care and interventions in collaboration with consumers /carers/families.
Ensure carers, family and significant others are engaged through our consumer's journey as appropriate.
Provision of intensive communitybased interventions and outreach support as clinically indicated to consumers and their families
Work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
Welldeveloped skills in writing and an ability to promptly prepare on the appropriate documentation for assessments, treatment plans, transition summaries and other forms of documentation.
Participate in discipline specific clinical supervision and workload management. This will include attendance and participation at clinical review and other reflective spaces.
Ensure contact hours are completed each month and entered into the appropriate data base.
The acute community intervention clinician will be supported to utilise their discipline specific skills within their work and will have an active role in clinical review discussions, treating team reviews, completing of relevant documentation and participating in ongoing professional development.
There is the option of portfolio/special interest work depending on clinician expertise/interest and needs of the team.

About you:

Extensive experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability
Capacity to undertake alcohol and other drug screening, assessment, treatment planning, brief interventions with consumers who have cooccurring mental health and substance use disorders
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with consumers, families/carers, colleagues and other service providers
Ability to work with consumers, family and carers from a range of cultural backgrounds, and to provide gender sensitive services.

Next Steps...
Please feel to visit the site and talk to staff to get a feel of the role and organisation. If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you.

For further details, please refer to the Position Description here.

Alternatively, please contact:

Ancy Joy , or

**Applications close on 29 April 2024.