Job description
Your new team
Join the expanding Orygen Recovery, a Youth Prevention & Recovery Care (YPARC) service providing sub-acute care in a bed-based residential 24 hours, 7 days a week program supporting young people aged 16-25 stepping up/down to intervene early and prevent further deterioration.
Your new role
- Partner with young people and provide clinical interventions, mental health assessment, risk assessment, formulation, treatment and crisis management
- Escalation of care – liaise with other services within Orygen and community services
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, share discipline-specific insight, supervision and training, and provide shift-by-shift leadership
- Work with lived experience workforce and families/carers to support young people with their recovery goals
- Provide inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA backgrounds
About you
- Registration and qualifications in a relevant area of practice (see position description for details)
- 2+ years’ experience in mental health as well as advanced clinical skills, assessment and management of high-risk clinical situations, including with young people
- Knowledge of mental health system of care, the common mental health and substance use issues faced by young people, and evidence-based treatments for major adolescent health issues
Benefits of working with Orygen Specialist Program (OSP)
- You will enjoy excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term!
- Join us during this inspiring time of growth and change – career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- Salary packaging, onsite car parking and close to public transport.
- Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Programs including; Staff Medical Service, Employee Assistance Program, Peer Support Program – run by our dedicated employees
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?
If you are looking for a varied and interesting role with scope to develop a range of skills, and you can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us for a confidential discussion.
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 Diana D’Cruz 0408846806.
To review the position description, please click here.
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.