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.

Job description:

Northern Health are seeking applications from a motivated and suitably experienced Mental Health Clinican to join our Older Adult community mental health team (SOACS) Specialist Older adult consultation service.

About Mental Health Division:

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.

Mental Health Services are provided at Epping, Broadmeadows, Jacana, Preston, Mill Park and Coburg.

About the Role:

This role requires an enthusiastic Registered Psychiatric Nurse/ Social Worker/Occupational Therapist/Psychologist Grade 3 having experience working in Mental health, including a passion caring for the older person.

You will have an awareness of the complexities of mental health in older persons.

Have sound assessment and risk assessment skills.

You will be working as a Key clinician.

You will be mobile, flexible and comfortable visiting a diverse range of Older adults in their home or aged care facilities.

You will be confident and comfortable working as part of team and seeking support and consult of team members as required.

This role is for a fixed term postion until 8th May 2026.

To be successful in the role you will have:

• Have current driver's license and confidant navigating the Northern and North EAST areas of Melbourne.
• Experience of least 3 years working in mental health.
• Demonstrated Mental Health assessment / risk assessment skills, as well as excellent documentation skills.
• Flexible and adaptable, and able to safely prioritise community care- having sound time management skills and able to work as a collaborative team member.
• Able to Escalate concerns re safety, quality and risk to appropriate staff if unable to rectify yourself.
• Well-developed engagement skills, being able to work with older people from diverse / disenfranchised backgrounds. As well as Ability to undertake a range of interventions with consumers.
• Have completed a post graduate diploma in Mental health nursing and are a registered Nurse with APHRA.

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 Lynette Stephens Manager SOACS M: 0418 596 742

Applications close Thursday 26 June 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.

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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.

We offer:

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

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