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Senior Mental Health Clinician - Orygen @ Home
Orygen Specialist Program
The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Ongoing full and part time opportunity | Salary Packaging | Monthly ADO
• Build therapeutic skills by supporting young people and families with inpatient care at home
• Footscray office, travel for visits incl. in work hours | AM, PM & weekend shifts

About The Royal Melbourne Hospital:

The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) part of the Parkville Precinct and is one of Australia's leading public hospitals, providing a comprehensive range of specialist medical, surgical, and mental health services, as well as rehabilitation, aged care, specialist clinics and community programs.

Orygen Specialist Program is a program of the Mental Health Service at Royal Melbourne Hospital. Orygen @ Home is an acute service providing early intervention to young people with severe and complex mental illness within the home environment.

Orygen @ Home offers 24/7 multidisciplinary mental health care for young people aged 12–25 and their families in Melbourne's northwest and western suburbs. The team provides tailored support, including mental and risk assessments, medication, therapy (CBT and other targeted approaches), family-inclusive care, vocational support, intensive outreach, and crisis intervention.

Benefits of working at RMH:

• Salary packaging options, earn up to $12,000 tax free earnings!
• 5 weeks annual leave plus monthly ADO’s for full time employees
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Discounted gyms and health centre access with Fitness Passport
• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals

About the role:

The Senior Mental Health Clinician supports the provision of comprehensive clinical acute mental health care to young people and families of the Orygen @ Home program. Provide leadership within the rotating roster to other staff with the program and play a key role in providing this comprehensive care within the Orygen @ Home model.

In this role you will:

• Partner with young people and their families/carers to provide inpatient­-like care within the home environment
• Provide leadership and discipline specific interventions and recover­y-focused care in the home
• Demonstrate advanced skills in mental health assessment, risk assessment, therapeutic interventions, least restrictive practices and improved outcomes, using evidence based best practice
• Provide supervision and support mental health clinicians (AH2/RPN3) and early career entry level clinicians
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and receive supervision and support through professional development

About you:

Formal Qualifications

• This is a multidisciplinary role open to RPN4/AH3 (Social Workers, Psychologists or Occupational Therapists). Must hold relevant degree, registration and/or membership as per attached Position Description

Essential

• 5 years’ previous experience in clinical practice as a mental health/psychiatric nurse, preferably with young people
• Passionate about mental health care and in making a positive impact to the lives of young people and their families/carers
• Ability to develop, implement and evaluate client ­centred individual service plans, risk assessments and diagnostic formulations
• Ability to provide, or develop skills in, integrated assessment, treatment and care for consumers with a range of diagnosis including mood disorders, early psychosis, personality and eating disorders

To view the full Position Description, please click HERE.

Please note, recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable applications are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and Working With Children Check. All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment.

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.