The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Community Mental Health Team Leader, Open Dialogue

• Full Time, Ongoing Position
• Inner Melbourne Community Team
• Deliver treatment, care and support that is social network focused, relationally-focused and enables supported decision making

This role is a key member of the RMH MHS Inner Melbourne Community Mental Health Team; a new team providing mental health, treatment, care and support in the City of Melbourne area (Carlton, North Melbourne, CBD).  The team will provide an innovative integrated Open Dialogue Model of Care as part of a translational research project under the auspices of the Victorian Collaborative Centre of Mental Health and Wellbeing.  The team will include both clinical and lived and living experiences peer support workforce with a focus on participation of the consumers family/support network from the beginning of their engagement with the team. 

Your new role:

• Co-facilitate Open Dialogue network meetings with the consumer and their supports to understand their experience, needs and collaboratively develop a treatment plan
• Respond to people in crisis as well as provide routine treatment, care and support to consumers with complex mental health care needs and their support network, which may include carers, family, kin and supporters
• Work collaboratively with external service providers, including our academic partners who will be leading an evaluation research project for the pilot
• Provide leadership to the team and discipline specific supervision as required

About you:

• You are an occupational therapist, nurse, social worker or registered psychologist
• You have at least 5 years-experience in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability (7 years for SW & OT)
• Ability to tolerate uncertainty and work in a flexible manner
• A willingness to share your emotional experience within Open Dialogue network meetings through reflections with your co-facilitator
• Experience in supporting teams to understand individuals within their family, community and cultural context

Benefit of working with the Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services:

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging
• Close to public transport

Interested?

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below:

Carly Johnson, Collaborative Centre Best Practice Consortium Lead, RMH MHS - 0403673288

(Monday-Thursday)

To view the full Position Description, please click HERE

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

The RMH stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.