Job description
Your new team
Orygen Specialist Programs (OSP), a program of The Royal Melbourne Hospital, provides specialist mental health services for young people aged 12 to 25 and focuses on providing early intervention to young people with severe and complex mental illness.
Our Eating Disorders Stream provides evidence-based interventions to young people experiencing severe eating disorders, and may present with a range of co-morbid mental health issues.
About your new role:
- Manage and undertake mental health and risk assessment, psychological treatment, crisis intervention, family work and systems containment, for the client/carers/system
- Provide high-quality clinical care based on clinical experience working with young people with serious mental illness
- Timely completion of mental health assessments including formulation, individual service plans, crisis management plans, outcome measures, documentation of client’s progress in client files, discharge summaries and contact sheets
- Provision of case management or family work to selected clients and associated documentation
- Manage clinical risk and actively work toward implementing risk reduction strategies
- Nurses will be required to undertake physical assessment and medical monitoring of clients attending the eating disorders stream
About You:
- Experience in clinical practice within the mental health field, including young people experiencing eating disorders
- Experience and expertise in providing acute mental health care management and/or eating disorder management
- Ability to develop, implement and evaluate client-centred individual service plans, risk assessments and diagnostic formulations
- Knowledge of the rationale and evidence for early intervention in mental illness
Benefits of working with Orygen Specialist Program:
- Join us during this inspiring time of growth and transformation – career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
- Salary packaging, onsite car parking and close to public transport.
Interested?
If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.
Please note: recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable applications are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date.
For a confidential conversation, please contact Kate Wapling on 03 9927 6200.
Please click here for the position description.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment and COVID-19 Vaccination prior to commencement.