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Senior Clinician – Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Senior Clinician – P3, SW3, OT3, RPN4
• Part time 0.8 FTE
• Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (HOPE)

The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) is one of Australia’s leading public hospitals, renowned for providing comprehensive, compassionate, and person-centred care to our community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As part of our Mental Health Services, we are dedicated to supporting individuals during their most vulnerable moments, fostering recovery, and building resilience through innovation, collaboration, and excellence in care.

Your new role:

The Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (HOPE) program has been developed to provide support to individuals following a suicide attempt or after displaying serious suicide ideation, intent or planning in the RMH Mental Health Services (MHS) catchment area (City of Melbourne and Moonee Valley).  HOPE will support clients for a period of up to 12 weeks, providing assertive and coordinated engagement via both outreach and clinic based therapeutic interventions within a collaborative clinical and non-clinical team.

• The HOPE team is embedded within the Post Discharge Mental Health Support Program offered by RMH MHS. 
• Senior clinical role modelling and contribution to a positive team culture.
• Outreach assessment in an acute setting.
• Provision of expert discipline advice established through professional development and ongoing commitment to learning.
• We are a small, supportive team who are passionate about supporting individuals and their families and carers following mental health crisis.

About you:

• Contribute senior clinical support to a clinical and non-clinical team that will work collaboratively with consumers, carers and families to provide outreach assistance that aims to achieve their goals.
• Demonstrate expertise in assessment and identifying suitable interventions.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.
• Relevant qualifications or experience.
• You have a demonstrated ability to engage individuals or families through telephone, face to face or online meetings in an empathic manner.
• Resilience, empathy, self-awareness, excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits 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
• Salary packaging, onsite car parking and, close to public transport.

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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.

Alex Smith, Manager RMH Ambulatory Mental Health Services

(m) 0417 536 251 Alexandra.Smith@mh.org.au

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

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.