Mental Health Clinician Multidisciplinary - South East

Senior Forensic Mental Health Clinician - Multidisciplinary

Multidisciplinary Role Classifications: RPN4/SW4/OT4/P3
Based between Clifton Hill and Dandenong with travel across the South East region 

$110,479 to $134,523 (Dependant on classification) + Superannuation + Salary Packaging

Please Note: Applications will be assessed as received and position may close earlier than indicated.

A career in the forensic mental health sector is diverse, challenging and rewarding. A career at Forensicare will be like no other. If you’re passionate about supporting people in their mental health recovery, Forensicare is where you need to be. You will be a part of a caring and supportive team, making a real difference to people living with the dual stigma of mental illness and offending. We approach our work with curiosity and a commitment to understanding the unique needs of our consumers and carers. Together, we can contribute to a more connected, compassionate mental health and criminal justice system.

Join the Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS) team as we expand our services across Regional and Metropolitan Victoria, establishing a site in the Hume region. CFMHS is a specialist state-wide agency that works with individuals who have a serious mental health illness and have offended or are at risk of offending.

About the Role:

The Senior Clinician will improve outcomes for consumers who have offending risks and mental illness and/or problem behaviours, and the families and carers through: 

• Improving access to Forensicare’s specialist forensic mental health services. 

• Coordination, referral pathways and transition support between specialist mental health care, correctional services and prisons. 

• Improving the capability of key local services to manage offending risks of consumers and appropriately refer consumers for specialist assessment and treatment. 

• Pathways into and out of Thomas Embling Hospital, to ensure that inpatient stays are no longer than necessary. 

 Duties:

• Proactively develop and maintain professional relationships with the relevant AMHWS, and forensic clinical specialists. 

• Proactively develop links with other mental health and social support services who provide services required to meet the needs of consumers and/or require forensic mental health support. 

• Provide specialist primary, secondary and tertiary consultation services for AMHWS and other key stakeholders, including advanced specialist forensic mental health assessments, risk assessments, reports, and advice on the assessment and management of complex forensic mental health issues.  

• Contribute to consumer risk management plans in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.  

• Provide case management on a shared care basis with AMHWS of consumers on extended leave from Thomas Embling Hospital. 

• Provide supervision of consumers under a Non-Custodial Supervision Order disposition under the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 

• Support people transitioning from prisons to the region. 

About You:

• Experience working in forensic mental health including forensic mental health risk assessment, care planning and service delivery. Alternatively, candidates with strong clinical experience working for Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Services (AMHWS) and a motivation to develop forensic mental health skills are encouraged to apply.

• Demonstrated minimum 5-year post registration mental health experience. 

• Demonstrated ability to undertake comprehensive psychosocial and risk assessments and to plan, implement and evaluate clinical interventions. 

• Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery and person-centered and family/carer inclusive care, incorporating consumer and family and carer perspectives into service delivery at both and individual and organisation wide level. 

Qualifications, knowledge, experience:

• This is multidisciplined opportunity and possession of a relevant tertiary qualification and registration or membership with the appropriate Board or Association as a Registered Nurse, Psychologist, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist.
• The qualifications required for each discipline are: 

Registered Nurse RPN4: 

• Registered Psychiatric Nurse. Must have current unrestricted registration with AHPRA and a post-graduate qualification in mental health nursing or equivalent. 

Psychologist Grade 3: 

• General registration with AHPRA 

• Masters or Doctorate qualifications (Clinical, Forensic or Neuropsychology)
• Eligibility for (or enrolled in) an Area of Practice Endorsement in clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and/or forensic psychology.

Social Worker - AH4: 

• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work coupled with eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).  

Occupational Therapist - AH4: