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.

Senior Community Mental Health Key Clinician

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS)

• Permanent Full Time or Part Time opportunity
• Team with homeless portfolio based in CBD of Melbourne
• Mix of assertive outreach community and clinic based work

About RMH MHS and the Community Team

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public health services, providing specialist medical, surgical and mental health care across hospital and community settings, with a strong commitment to compassionate, recovery-focused care.

Community Team 1 (CT1) supports consumers living in Melbourne’s CBD and Inner West and leads the homelessness portfolio for The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services. The team delivers intensive, community-based care using an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model, including outreach, medication support, psychosocial interventions, crisis response, and coordination of housing, financial and vocational supports.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Mental Health Clinician to join our team at the RMH City Campus. In this role, you will support a strengths-based, personalised approach to care and contribute to evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and interventions to improve consumer wellbeing and functioning.

This is a unique opportunity to work with complex presentations in a collaborative team and make a meaningful difference to some of the community’s most vulnerable people.

Your new role

• Provide support and leadership 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 issues as well as homelessness.
• Work with a team of enthusiastic multidiscipline professionals providing assertive outreach and high-quality care to some of Melbourne’s most marginalised people.
• Develop and apply mental health interventions suitable for our consumer cohort that will assist with their recovery.
• Enjoy the benefits of working closely with colleagues in a combination of clinic based and assertive outreach work in the CBD of Melbourne.

About you

To be successful, you will be

• Interested in working with homeless consumers directly in the community.
• Possess formal qualifications and registration as an Occupational Therapist, Psychologist or Social Worker.
• Able to work 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.
• Leadership skills including initiative, advanced communication skills and the capacity and willingness to further develop these
• Demonstrate extensive experience in the provision of specialist services in public mental health settings with a strong focus on local communities and inter-agency specific knowledge.

Why work at RMH MHS?

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Interesting variety of work in a very welcoming team, in a unique setting and location
• Earn up to $12,000 with salary packaging
• Generous leave entitlements including 5 weeks annual, 17.5% leave loading and monthly ADOs for full time employees
• Enjoy discounted health and fitness facility access with Fitness Passport

To view the full position description, click here!

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.

Trevor Carlisle – Trevor.Carlisle@mh.org.au

Please Note: We will be shortlisting and arranging interviews promptly and as a result, this job advert may close early.

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.