Company description:

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.

We offer a range of benefits to support and reward staff both personally and professionally, which includes:

· Health and Wellbeing programs, including our ‘Thrive' program

· Flexibility in the workplace and extra leave options and support

· An inclusive and culturally safe space

· State of the art facilities and campus partnerships

· A commitment to ongoing professional development through our ‘Learning Labs'

· Access to salary packaging, EAP and our online library

For a glimpse of life at NH, click here.

Work with us! Northern Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds are encouraged.

All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service's Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza.

Job description:

Looking to work in a rewarding role and make a real impact on people lives, come and join an exciting opportunity that exists for an enthusiastic individual at Northern Health's Mental Health Division as a Senior Mental Health Clinician.

About Nothern Health:

Northern Health is the major provider of acute, maternity, sub-acute, mental health, specialist, community and home-based services in Melbourne's rapidly growing outer north.

Services are provided through our five main campuses:

Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Bundoora Centre, Craigieburn Centre, and Kilmore District Hospital. In addition, Mental Health Services are provided at Epping, Broadmeadows, Jacana, Preston, Mill Park and Coburg.

About Mental Health Division:

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none. Northern Health is located in the rapidly growing northern suburbs with projected growth the biggest in the state.

With a booming, culturally rich and diverse community, and less than an hour's drive from the CBD, Melbourne's North is fast becoming the place to be! Northern Health is the third largest mental health service in Victoria Northern.

Within the Mental Health Division, we pride ourselves on providing high quality mental health services to people living in the northern regions of Melbourne, and work in a collaborative way with consumers and carers based on recovery principles. We aim to provide strong clinical leadership to support all staff in the provision of professional treatment and care by our integrated community teams, inpatient, and residential services.

About the Role:

Exciting opportunity exists for a HOPE Mental Health Senoir Clinican to join the HOPE Team within Northern Health's Mental Health Division, located in Mill Park.

The HOPE program is a multidisciplinary team made up of clinicians, psychosocial support workers and Peer/Carer Lived experience workforce alongside the HOPE Consultant Psychiatrist.

The HOPE team is a supportive and dynamic team of staff that are truly passionate and motivated in supporting consumers and their families/carers.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist mental health services to people who reside in the local government areas of Merri Bek and Hume.

Contribute your clinical expertise to the HOPE program, particularly in the areas of mental health assessment and care coordination following a suicide attempt or expressions of suicidal ideation.

Engage in clinical service development activities within the team and actively support quality initiatives and research efforts.

You will collaborate with both clinical and non-clinical colleagues, as well as those with lived experiences, to promote a team-based approach to care.

Also, you will participate in collecting data in a timely manner for quality improvement and evaluation purposes.

This position is ongoing full time position working 80 hours per fortnight. Hours of work will be on a rotating roster Monday to Fridays and will include business hours and after hours through the week and is projected to commence Saturday shifts (business hours).

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experience in delivering evidenced based brief intervention and psychoeducaiton on risk factors assosciated with suicidality.
• Experience in the provision of mental health assessment and intervention for consumers - preferably in a public mental health setting but this is not essential
• Ability to provide general and discipline specific mental health assessment and intervention
• Ability to work as part of a team but also able to work autonomously
• Passion about contributing positively to the lives of consumers experiencing suicidal ideation precipitated by psychosocial stressors and their families

If you don't check every single box, we still want to hear from you! We encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this role, or perhaps one of our many other exciting opportunities waiting for someone just like you. Your unique qualities and experiences matter.

Next Steps . . .

If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.

For further details, please refer to the Position Description. Alternatively, you can contact Yvette Woodburn - HOPE Program Manager on 0407 261 238

Applications close on Thursday 10 April 2025.

Shortlisting will commence immediately for this vacancy. If an appropriate candidate is sourced, the advertising may close early, thus we advise you to apply right away.