Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Dependant upon qualifications and experience
Remuneration: $67,357.32 – $105,895.00 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Hours per week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ360536
Applications Close: 20 December 2022
Vaccination Category: A (including influenza and 3 doses of COVID-19 vaccination)
Bring your skills and experience to MLHD to enhance services across our local communities. Flexible working arrangements available!
What we offer
- Salary Packaging – up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + $9k remote area housing + novated leasing
- Corporate Health and Fitness program
- Flexible working arrangements
- Genuine welcoming and supportive staff and communities
- Career development opportunities
Where you’ll be working
Known for our innovative consumer focused models of care which are designed for the rural and regional population we serve, our Mental Health teams provide critical services within acute, sub-acute and community settings throughout the Murrumbidgee Local Health District.
As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work within talented multidisciplinary environments, have excellent support with ongoing development and access to key technologies connecting you with colleagues and consumers based throughout the District.
Our multidisciplinary teams provide career paths for both nursing and allied health staff, new graduates, and established professionals. We are committed to providing safe, effective, quality care through listening to consumers and continually exploring ways to do it better.
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About the Role
The focus is on young people with complex or high needs who may be difficult to engage in effective treatment and support. The aim is to guide the future management of these young people in primary health settings, provide evidence-based interventions or to facilitate referral to specialist settings where required. These young people may be exhibiting behaviour, which is indicative of a developing mental health problem, i.e., prodromal symptoms that may be recognised by parents, teachers or other service providers, e.g. Drug and Alcohol services.
Identified outcomes are:
- Successful therapeutic engagement with young people experiencing or at risk of developing severe mental illness, who may be considered very hard to engage
- better experience of care through integrated and coordinated service models (with a particular focus on headspace centres, child and adolescent mental health services, hospitals, and schools)
- avoidance of unnecessary hospitalisations through timely access to appropriate and targeted clinical care
- active use of a multiagency care plan for young people with, or at risk of, severe and complex mental illness, to help link providers across multiple services involved in a young person’s care
- improved support for families and carers of young people experiencing severe mental illness
Priority populations will include young people who identify and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, young people experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage, young people at risk of withdrawing from education or employment, young people who have experienced trauma, and young people who are at risk of hospitalisation.
How to apply
Your application will require you to include a:
- Resume; and
- Cover Letter outlining your skills and experience and why you are a good fit for this position
To learn more about the role, accountabilities, and the required pre-employment checks, please see the Position Description. For a confidential discussion, contact Debby Howard, Registered Paediatric Nurse / Acting Manager on 02 6961 0100 or [email protected]
If interested, we encourage you to click apply promptly. Applications will be assessed as they are received, with suitable candidates contacted and progressed without delay.
New applicants must have completed the COVID-19 vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate. Should a medical contraindication certificate be provided, ongoing employment post certificate expiry is conditional to meeting COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic, or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.
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