Psychosocial Support Worker – HOPE Team

Mid-West Area Mental Health Service (MWAMHS)
  

• Part Time position based in Sunshine
• Unique opportunity to be part of a team delivering brief therapeutic interventions to People at Risk of Suicide
  
• Be part of a new and challenging practice initiative and help change people’s lives
  

Your new team

The HOPE (Hospital Outreach Post-suicidal Engagement) initiative has been developed to provide support to individuals discharged from the Emergency Department, medical ward or inpatient unit post a suicide attempt or displaying serious suicide ideation, intent or planning in the Sunshine, Brimbank and part of Hume (Bulla and Sunbury) catchment area.

HOPE will support clients for a period of 12 weeks, providing assertive and coordinated care post-discharge. Engagement will take place via both outreach and clinic based therapeutic interventions to reduce the risk of suicide re-attempts and deaths by suicide.

Your new role 

• Provide direct assistance to consumers, carers and families.
• Work collaboratively with other community agencies
• Work effectively as part of a team, to meet program goals and objectives
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a positive and safe experience to at-risk consumers.
• Communicate effectively with consumers carers and families

 About you  

• Lived experience of utilising mental health services due to suicide ideation or behaviours, and/or a carer to a person utilising mental health services due to suicide ideation or behaviours
• An understanding of crisis intervention and management skills, and ability to escalate concerns if deterioration occurs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively.
• Skills in working with cultural and linguistically diverse communities.

Benefits of working with the RMH

• Opportunity for weekend and after-hours work with extended hours & expanded referral pathways in the near future.
• Excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term!
• Work alongside highly trained staff whilst providing compassionate and supportive care for all members of the community.
• A Values based organisation offering great prospects for career diversity and professional advancement, including training and research opportunities, and access to mentorship and leadership programs.

The RMH is 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.

Interested?

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.

Nadia Petruccelli               92887000

Liam Burke                      0400 320 005

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, and where applicable, Working With Children Check (WWCC). All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are highly encouraged to apply