Job Description:
LGBTIQA+ Mental Health Clinician
OT/SW Grade 4, RPN4, Psychologist Grade 3
The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS)
- New role to support LGBTIQA+ consumers experiencing mental ill health or distress
- Permanent Part Time
- Work across bed based and community services
- Mix of direct client work, consultation and service development opportunities
- Make a difference for LGBTIQA+ consumers across large mental health service
About RMH MHS and the Community Team
As part of commitment to providing equity in health care, RMH MHS is establishing the LGBTIQA+ Mental Health Senior Clinician role. This role supports the service to embed diversity, equity and inclusion through an intersectional lens and drive best practice in LGBTIQA+ mental health treatment, care and support alongside consumers, carers and communities.
Your new role
- Provide direct clinical interventions and secondary consultations to support consumers, carers and family as they move through the service
- Participate in review and enhancement of procedures and policies, improve linkages and relationships across the service and with other stakeholders.
- Work with enthusiastic multidiscipline professionals including existing LGBTIQA+ roles at RMH
- Demonstrate and extend your leadership skills to drive best practice and positive culture across RMH MHS
- Actively engage in supervision, support activities, discipline specific meetings and professional development
About you
- Motivated to champion LGBTIQA+ inclusive and affirming practice across all RMH MHS teams
- Possess formal qualifications and registration as an Occupational Therapist, Psychologist, Social Worker or Registered Psychiatric Nurse.
- Be able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Show leadership skills including initiative, advanced communication skills and the capacity and willingness to further develop these
Why work at RMH MHS?
- Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
- Interesting variety of work in a very welcoming team, in a unique setting and location
- Generous leave entitlements including 5 weeks annual, 17.5% leave loading and monthly ADOs for full time employees
- Enjoy discounted health and fitness facility access with Fitness Passport
Interested?
If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.
For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.
Joe Judge – [email protected]
Please Note: We will be shortlisting and arranging interviews promptly and as a result, this job advert may close early.
Name and Contact: Joe Judge 0499 572 990
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