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Senior Clinician – Eating Disorders
Orygen Specialist Program
The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Exciting new opportunity to join Orygen Specialist Program Eating Disorders team
• Part-time (0.8) Ongoing, multidisciplinary role (OT3, SW3, P3 and RPN4)
• Based in Sunshine with satellite services covering Werribee and Melton

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 provides mental health services to young people aged 12-25 and their families/carers in Melbourne's northwest and western suburbs.

Our Eating Disorders Stream provides evidence-based interventions to young people experiencing severe eating disorders and may present with a range of co-morbid mental health issues. The eating disorders stream also provides secondary consultation and assists in the management of eating disorders across Orygen services.

Care will be in partnership with ongoing care providers and enable opportunities for targeted interventions that can be completed within the home, sub-acute and acute environments. The Eating Disorders stream maintains key partnerships with external stakeholders representing Orygen within Eating Disorder networks and utilises these relationships to support collaborative care and to young people to engage with those agencies should they require their supports.

Benefits of working at RMH:

• Salary packaging options, earn up to $12,000 tax free earnings!
• 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time) plus leave loading
• Discounted gyms and health centre access with Fitness Passport
• RMH prides ourselves on our Speaking Up for Safety Culture and our values – People First, Lead with Kindness and Excellence together!

About the role:

• Provide clinical leadership, support, supervision, and consultations to members of the multidisciplinary team and clinicians across the service, regarding evidence-based eating disorder practice principles and approaches
• Provide high-quality family-inclusive integrated consultations, based on clinical experience working with young people with eating disorders and other serious mental illness and substance use
• Undertake mental health and risk assessment, formulation, psychological treatment, crisis intervention, systems support for the young person, family/carers and wider system
• Devise, implement and evaluate an appropriate treatment plan for each young person and their family and provide comprehensive clinical case management and psychological therapy to clients of the eating disorder stream
• Function autonomously, carry a caseload of clients, participate in clinical review meetings and practice according to the philosophy and protocols of the service
• Participate in the ongoing development of a framework for eating disorders care across Orygen, engaging and collaborating with Orygen Primary, Specialist, Recovery, Research and Translation programs
• Participate in collaboratively designing, develop and deliver eating disorder training packages across primary, secondary and tertiary care
• Participate in research expanding the evidence base regarding youth eating disorders care including innovative care trials and program evaluation

About you

Formal Qualifications

• This is a multidisciplinary role open to Grade 4 Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Grade 3 Social Workers, Psychologists or Occupational Therapists (must hold relevant degree, registration and/or membership as per attached Position Description)

Essential

• Comprehensive experience in clinical practice within the mental health field, including young people experiencing eating disorders
• Experience and expertise in providing acute mental health care management and/or eating disorder management
• Ability to develop, implement and evaluate client-centred individual service plans, risk assessments and diagnostic formulations
• Knowledge of the rationale and evidence for early intervention in mental illness

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.