Mental Health Clinician Alfred Health

JOB DESCRIPTION

Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.

 

  • Full-time to end June 2023 – parental leave backfill
  • Based in Frankston
  • Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3, Social Worker/Occupational Therapist/Psychologist Grade 2
  • Frequent professional development opportunities

What’s in it for you:

  • Great team culture and a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Be involved in an innovative youth mental health program that is making a real difference in the community!

About us:

Headspace Early Psychosis is an innovative and comprehensive youth early psychosis programs being delivered through one program in each Australian state. Through this initiative, young people and their families have timely access to comprehensive evidence-based early psychosis services. This program aims to intervene early with young people who have unusual sensory experiences and/or beliefs and their families and supporters. The service builds on strengths and resilience, uses the wisdom of lived experience and fosters hope, potential, and recovery.

What you’ll be doing

As a CCT (Continuing Care Team) Clinician, you will provide clinical assessment, intervention, case-management and therapy to young people presenting with, or at risk of, developing early psychosis and facilitate a culture that emphasises family involvement. In addition, you will act as a resource demonstrating current theoretical knowledge and evidence base for discipline specific practice in mental health.

In this role, you will be well supported through an outcome orientated multi-disciplinary team structure with opportunities for professional development.  

What we need from you

  • Approved tertiary qualifications and eligibility for membership of AHPRA or relevant professional registering body
  • Appropriate work visa
  • Current Victorian Driver’s License
  • Current Working with Children Check and be willing to undergo a Background Check

Other benefits

  • Portable long service leave from other public health services
  • Great employment benefits as part of Alfred Health – Wellbeing initiatives, access to salary packaging, novated leasing and discounted health insurance and banking
  • Great work life balance & located close to public transport, shops and restaurants

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the APPLY button, include your resume and cover letter. 

For more information regarding the position please contact Mike Etheridge on ph: 0409 405 137

Closing date: Sunday, 30 October 2022 by 11pm AEST

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.  Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine and must provide evidence of their vaccination status. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.    

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au

JOB SUMMARY

Organisation

Alfred Health

Job Salary

RPN3, SW/OT/PSY2

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