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Community Mental Health Clinician

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services

• Allied Health - Key Clinician Level 2 Year 1 – 4 (SW2, P2, OT2)
• Full Time, Fixed Term Opportunity!
• Combination of assertive outreach in the community and clinic-based work

About RMH & the team:

Community Team 1 (CT1) provide care to consumers living in the CBD and the Inner West of Melbourne.  Additionally, they hold the homeless portfolio for Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Service (RMH MHS).  CT1 applies an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model of care, which is characterized by lower caseloads, community-based treatment (outreach) a team-based approach and high intensity of care.  This can involve medication management, psychosocial support, assessment and referral (housing, financial, vocation, increasing levels of participation), psychological assessment, formulation and interventions, crisis assessments and admissions.

We are seeking a suitably qualified Occupation Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist prepared for this unique opportunity to work with complex consumers in a supportive team environment and to make a difference for some of the more vulnerable consumers in our community. 

Your new role:

• Apply your experience and skills in the delivery of evidence-based treatment and interventions, ensuring the provision of high-quality assertive outreach and care coordination of services to adults experiencing mental health and AOD issues as well as homelessness.
• Work with a team of enthusiastic multidisciplined professionals providing high-quality care to some of Melbourne’s most marginalised people.
• Enjoy the benefits of working closely with colleagues in the CBD of Melbourne.
• Manage a reasonable caseload that allows you to do therapeutic work and develop thoughtful, evidence-based recovery, treatment and management plans

• Apply sound treatment skills for people with severe and enduring mental health conditions, and have willingness and capacity to commit to development of evidenced based knowledge and practice

About you:

• Interested in working with homeless consumers directly in the community.
• Possess formal qualifications as a Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist or Occupational Therapist.
• Enjoy working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of effective evidence-based interventions appropriate to low prevalence disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, personality disorder, relapse prevention and substance abuse.

Why work with us?:

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging, well serviced by public transport.
• Excellent training, education and development options.
• Interesting variety of work in a very welcoming team, in a unique setting and location.

To view the full position description, click here!

Interested? Click apply! We will be arranging interviews as soon as possible and this advert may close early as a result.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and satisfactory Working With Children Check.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and are committed to a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

RMH is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with the Child Safe Standards.

As a leader in healthcare, we recognise the need to foster a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging. We encourage people of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities to apply, and will provide adjustments to support equitable participation.