Title: Occupational Therapist - Mental Health Wellbeing Program
Ringwood East, VIC, AU, 3135
Occupational Therapist - Acute Mental Health Wellbeing Program
- Permanent Full Time | 5 weeks’ annual leave plus monthly day off
- Maroondah Inpatient Unit | Carparking on site | Close to cafes
- Collaborative multi-disciplinary team approach to supporting consumers and families/ carers in acute mental health
Eastern Health
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest 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 the difference.
About the role
The Occupational Therapist works in partnership with consumers, carers, families and other service providers to provide high quality occupational therapy assessment, treatment and consultation services within a recovery-oriented framework across adult inpatient mental health services. Services provided will be individualized to support recovery and may include individual and group work, assessment and intervention, discharge planning, education for consumers and their families, and liaison with other services and programs as needed.
About you
To be successful in this role you will possess:
• Registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia, Australian Health Practitioners Registration Agency.
• A minimum of 12 months post graduate experience as a registered Occupational Therapist in mental health.
You will demonstrate:
• Relevant theoretical knowledge, experience and skills in the provision of evidence based occupational therapy assessment and treatment in a mental health setting.
• Comprehensive understanding of, and experience in delivering, recovery oriented mental health practice.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation, policies, plans and strategic directions of public mental health services
• Demonstrated ability to skilfully engage consumers in the development and implementation of individualised plans designed to promote, foster and sustain personal recovery.
• Demonstrated experience and skills in supporting consumers to engage in, structure and access meaningful daily activity and occupation.
• A commitment to working with consumers from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds and to providing services that are family and gender sensitive.
• Knowledge of the mental health sector, including roles and workings of mental health teams and relevant community resources and services to support people with mental illness.
• Proven ability and commitment to work collaboratively with consumers, carers, the multidisciplinary team and external agencies.
• Commitment to supervised and reflective practice, lifelong learning and further development.
• Computer literacy and embracing of health technologies and informatics.
• High level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
• Emerging clinical leadership within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience in supervision of clinical practice of junior staff and students.
• Demonstrated high level inter personal skills with consumers, their families and all health care professionals including effective conflict resolution and negotiation.
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
Please click here for Position Description
Contact Person: Pauline Kelly
Contact Number: 0403 104 891
Contact Email: pauline.kelly@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 (Option 1)
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