Title:  Senior Clinician/Senior Psych Nurse

Location: 

Box Hill, VIC, AU, 3128

Job Posting Date:  27 Jun 2024

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Senior Clinician/Case Manager

 

  • Limited Term Part Time, 12 month Contract
  • RPN4, OT3, SW3, Clinical Psychologist Grade 3 

  • $ 99,606 - $119,324 P.A. (paid pro rata) - dependent on qualifications and experience 

  • Central Box Hill

 

Eastern Health

 

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s most prominent public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.


Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan – which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make a difference.

 

About the role

 

Join our high-functioning team, where you will benefit from our collaborative environment where you can make a difference and have a positive community impact. Out teams also pride themselves on creating an environment that will grow and develop each clinician with training and workshops offered as standard incentives to grow and develop. The emotional and psychological rewards of seeing our consumers progress and working with various cases lead to job satisfaction. Our interdisciplinary team, including lived experience and peer specialists, ensures we deliver comprehensive and holistic care where the consumer is always in focus. 

 

An opportunity exists within the Adult Community Mental Health Services in the Koonung Continuing Care Team for passionate, enthusiastic & experienced senior mental health clinicians with sound clinical knowledge and mental health experience. 

 

The roles will partner with consumers, carers, families and other service providers to provide high-quality case management and discipline-specific mental health assessment, treatment, consultation and community linkage services within a recovery-oriented framework. This position will be at our clinic in Box Hill, close to Box Hill Central, providing centre-based and outreach services. 

 

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced mental health clinician wanting a senior role in a supportive, cohesive, and friendly multidisciplinary clinical mental health team. This clinical environment prides itself on supporting colleagues in clinically complex situations, having a strong professional culture, and opportunities for professional development.  

 

About you 
 

To be successful in this role you will possess:

 

  • Qualifications and experience as specified in the position description, either as a Registered Nurse, Clinical Psychologist, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist with appropriate registration. 

  • Experience in community mental health practice, including case management and discipline-specific practices. 

  • Demonstrated work experience in mental health in a senior role to be considered for RPN4/G3 Allied Health. 

  • Support innovation and improvement as a senior clinician to achieve healthcare excellence. 

  • Demonstrated ability to provide mental health assessments and interventions for consumers and their carers individually and/or in groups utilising a case management model. 

  • Demonstrated commitment to and ability to practice utilising the recovery approach in mental health treatment and support with a focus on working collaboratively with consumers and carers to promote self-determination and enable progress towards reaching personal recovery goals.  

  • Well-developed interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills. 

  • A strong commitment to high-quality care. 

  • Current registration with AHPRA 
  • Post Graduate qualifications in Mental Health
  • Highly developed interpersonal and leadership experience
  • A strong commitment to high quality care
  • The ability to work as part of a diverse team
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills

 

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.  An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

 

What we offer

 

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!

 

  • Diverse and engaging career opportunities
  • Friendly & supportive team
  • Flexible working hours
  • Salary packaging options
  • Career progression in our teaching hospitals

 

Next Steps
 

Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

 

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates.

 

Good to know:

 

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
  • We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
  • As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
  • Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
  • Advertising may end before the closing date.
  • We do not accept recruitment agency application

 

 

Position Description Link

Contact Person: Mattias Fredell

Contact Number: +61 403 201 971

Contact Email: Mattias.Fredell@easternhealth.org.au

 

Need help submitting your application?

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555

 

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