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Senior Family Work Clinician – Mood Stream
Orygen Specialist Program
The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Part-time Ongoing position, working 45.6 hours per fortnight
• Deliver expert family therapy for youth with complex mood disorders at Orygen
• Based in Parkville / Craigieburn

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.

Join Orygen’s MOOD team as a Senior Family Work Clinician, where you’ll work alongside a passionate multidisciplinary group providing treatment to young people who are experiencing moderate to severe mood disorders. Many of these young people also experience co-occurring mental health problems. This is an exciting opportunity to take the next step in your career within a dynamic and expanding organisation. 

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
• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals

About the role:

• Provide clinical leadership, support, and supervision, primary and secondary consultations to members of the multidisciplinary team, regarding family inclusive practice principles and approaches
• Provide family- focused interventions, including single session family consultations
• Develop and support a framework for family engagement in the Early Psychosis Program in conjunction with other senior clinicians
• Provide clinical leadership, management, training and supervision to a multidisciplinary team
• Support the delivery of evidence-based interventions across early psychosis, in collaboration with other senior staff
• Work from an inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA backgrounds
• Work in an environment with access to regular clinical supervision and professional development opportunities within Orygen

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)
• A post-graduate level qualification in Family/Systems Therapy

Essential

• Knowledge of and training in family-based approaches to mental health including the Single Session Family Consultation Framework
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and respectfully with young people and families/carers
• Ability to work independently and as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
• 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.