Mental Health Clinician Youth
Register Psychiatric Nurse, Psychologist, Social Work or Occupational Health Therapist 

Ararat
80 hours per fortnight + a monthly ADO

About the role

Providing bio-psycho-social, evidence-based and/or best practice mental health assessment and treatment of patients and their families to enhance the patient’s recovery. In addition, being an active contributor to the ongoing development of mental health service delivery across the Grampians region to patients and their families.

Clinicians who undertake a career with Youth Mental Health Service will find the role is both challenging and rewarding, with exposure to a wide range of mental health disorders and treatments. Our clinicians develop comprehensive knowledge and expert skill in the provision of contemporary mental health treatment for clients and families, leading to many opportunities for career progression and advancement.

 Key Responsibilities

• Actively and effectively work within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the generic and discipline-specific clinical expertise of that multidisciplinary team.
• Undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, identify and prioritise patient and family needs and/or referral options.
• Clinically treat patients as the primary treating clinician within a multi- disciplinary team that emphasises, practices and continually seeks to improve patient-centred, family-inclusive, community-based, evidence-based and best practices.
• Develop, administer, implement and review clinical treatment plans that target identified biological, psychological, and social needs of patients and their families and include targeted evidence-based treatment strategies consistent with BHS-MHS policies, procedures and discipline- specific standards.
• Evaluate the effects of implemented treatment of all patients and their families.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills in daily clinical practice with respect to the routine, active involvement of families in the delivery of clinical treatments.

Skills and experience

• Ideally the candidate will have experience working in a Community Mental Health team
• High levels of assessment skills
• Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work both independently and within a team structure.

This position is paid in accordance with the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020 – 2024. The classification is Registered Nurse Grade 2 (YP2 – YP9) which ranges from $34.17 – $48.26 per hour.

About Grampians Health

• Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.
• This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.
• A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.
• Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services.  This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

Ararat Region

Ararat Rural City has a population of over 11,000 and is situated 198km west of Melbourne on the Western Highway which connects the region to Adelaide. Ararat sits at an important road junction with the Pyrenees Highway which connects north western Victoria with the Port of Portland in the south.

Ararat Rural City is the gateway to the world-renowned Grampians Region and is characterised by huge horizons, spectacular mountain scapes and a vibrant sense of community health and wellbeing.

Advanced manufacturing, agriculture, food and wine production, construction, healthcare and tourism experiences underpin the economy.

Grampians Health Culture & Benefits

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset.  We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Discounted on-site parking
• Access to discounted health club membership
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

 How to apply

Click APPLY or contact Allister Williamson Acting Team Leader Ararat MHS, on 53529710.

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask.  Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.

Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.