Mental Health Clinician - North West Sector

Location: Ballarat Central, VIC, AU, 3350

$43.67 to $56.72 depending on your discipline and level of experience | Mental Health Clinician - North West Sector

80 hours per fortnight available with monthly ADO | Up to $15,000 incentive payments may be available to support relocation

About the role

Join our dedicated team as a Mental Health Clinician, providing holistic, evidence-based care to support recovery for individuals experiencing mental health challenges. Working collaboratively with Senior Clinicians and Team Leaders, you'll deliver comprehensive bio-psycho-social clinical assessments, treatment, and care plans that prioritise consumer cantered and family inclusive practice. Community clinicians are required to work a rostered function covering weekends to facilitate urgent assessments and support to consumers in their own homes, ED, medical wards and consumers from youth and aged services. This includes assessments over the telephone and medication management/support.

Key Responsibilities

Provide evidence based and best practice clinical assessments, identify and prioritise consumers needs and develop risk management plans

Undertake comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, identify and prioritise consumer and family needs, including risk assessment and managemen
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Attend Mental Health Tribunals and ensure consumers rights are met under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Ac
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Co-ordinate crisis assessments and admissions to mental health bed based units. Monitor physical health conditions and promote physical wellbeing. Develop recovery plans in collaboration with consumers, families and carers, prioritise and action areas identified

Skills and experience

Must have AHPRA (Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Psychologist) or eligibility for the AASW for Social Worker

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Recent clinical experience in a range of mental health settings, including bed based units and community mental health. Well-developed mental health assessment skills Good knowledge of the Mental Health Wellbeing Act and other relevant legislation Good knowledge of the recovery model and how this informs engagement with consumers

Up to $15,000 incentive payments may be available to support relocation

(paid as a reimbursement for Bond and rent, travel costs, removalists, accommodation, visa application fees and more).

The Victorian Government has allocated funds to support rural and regional Area Mental Health Services (AMHS) to provide incentives to attract workers to roles that are difficult to fill.

The new workforce relocation and incentive grants program is being administered by Rural Agency Workforce Victoria (RWAV).

Interested?

if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Vanessa Sharples on 03 5320 4100 for a confidential discussion.

We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from Recruitment Agencies.

About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Culture & Benefits

Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunitie

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Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holiday
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Access to Staff Fitness programStaff rewards and recognition program
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Ballarat Region

Diversity and Inclusion
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+.