Community Mental Health Key Clinician, RPN4. Acute Response Team

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS)

• Permanent Full Time or Part Time opportunity
• Team with acute mental health function based in Moonee Ponds
• 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.

Mental Health Acute Response Team (MH-ART) supports consumers living across Melbourne’s CBD and Inner West and provides community based acute assessment and intervention for The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services. The team delivers intensive, community-based care, including outreach, crisis assessment, brief intervention, medication support, psychosocial interventions and facilitation of referrals across RMH MHS or other services.

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 position also supports the training and development for mental health clinicians as they increase their acute mental health skills.

This is a unique opportunity to work with complex presentations in a collaborative team and make a meaningful difference to consumers experiencing acute mental distress or illness. 

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 brief interventions for adults experiencing acute mental health issues.
• Work with a team of enthusiastic multidiscipline professionals providing assertive outreach and high-quality care to people in challenging period of their life.
• Facilitate high standard acute mental health services, and contribute to training for clinicians developing their acute mental health skills.
• Enjoy the benefits of working closely with colleagues in a combination of clinic based and assertive outreach work across Inner West catchment.

About you

To be successful, you will be

• Interested in providing assessment and intervention for people experiencing acute mental illness or distress in the community.
• Possess formal qualifications and registration as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse
• 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
• 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.

Joe Judge – ************@mh.org.au

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

Name and Contact:  Joe Judge 0499 572 ***