Job Description
Mental Health Clinician - Inner Melbourne Community
Req ID:  4934
Posting Start Date:  31/12/2025
Advertisement End Date:  28/10/2025
Work Location:  Jane Bell House
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Job Description: 

Open Dialogue Community Mental Health Key Clinician

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

  • Provide community mental health support to consumers and their networks
  • Deliver innovative care using Open Dialogue and evidence-based practice
  • Full-time permanent role with relational, social network–focused care

 

About The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS):

This role is a key member of the RMH MHS Inner Melbourne Community Mental Health Team, providing mental health care and support across Carlton, North Melbourne, and the CBD. The team delivers an innovative Open Dialogue Model of Care as part of a translational research project with the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing. Combining clinical and peer expertise, the team prioritises consumer and family participation from the start of engagement. This position is part of additional growth funding to expand the team’s capacity following its successful launch in early 2025.

 

About the role:

Core duties the candidate would be required to perform

  • 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

 

About you:

  • You are an occupational therapist, nurse, social worker or registered psychologist
  • You have at least 2 years-experience in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability (SW and 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

 

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
  • 5 weeks annual leave, plus monthly ADOs (for full-time staff)
  • Salary packaging options to increase your take-home pay and discounted fitness and health facility access with Fitness Passport
  • Join a supportive, values-based organisation with a focus on staff wellbeing!

 

Click here to review the full position description

 

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.

Jacqui Fischer - Director of Community Operations RMH MHS - 0413 883 889

Kyle Piscopo - Team Leader Inner Melbourne Community Team - 0448 567 517

 

 
Name and Contact:  Jacqui Fischer 0413 883 889 OR Kyle Piscopo 0448 567 517
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and satisfactory Working With Children Check. The RMH is committed to creating a culturally safe environment as a collective responsibility. We draw on our principles of self-determination, equity, accountability, and shared learning to create a culturally responsive health system that challenges how we strive for continuous quality improvement to meet the expectations of the communities and patients we serve. 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 (https://ccyp.vic.gov.au/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.