Employment Type: Permanent Part Time role- 4 days/week
Hours: 64 hours per fortnight
Location: Onsite Wyndham Clinic
Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter, and all relevant qualifications
Contact: Erin Dillon | Wyndham Clinic Ph: 80077200
Where there’s life, there’s Mercy.
Where there’s care, there’s You.
Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?
For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability we offer. But it also means so much opportunity - to build on all that’s gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.
As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.
At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better.
To do that, we need you.
Join us at Mercy Health and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.
About the opportunity
An opportunity to join a multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Team providing support to consumers experiencing mental illness, their families and referring agencies. The chance to be a part of the welcoming, friendly and highly skilled team at the Wyndham Clinic, Hoppers Crossing. We are passionate about providing an accessible high-quality service to the rapid growing, diverse community we serve.
- Part Time – Permanent Role
- Provide quality and high-level mental health assessments, formulations and recommendations for clients that have been referred.
- Offer consultation to referring teams and recommend appropriate service linkages
- Attend regular multidisciplinary clinical reviews to discuss referrals escalate challenging situations as appropriate
Additional expectation about the role:
- Possess critical skills set in providing assessment and monitoring of patients' physical and mental state and confidence in putting relapse management plans and safely managing a deteriorating consumer
- Provide highly responsive and flexible service to consumers and carers in times of need.
- Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, and the confidence to advocate for clients as and when required
- Be available to offer clinical supervision to junior staff members when required.
- Possess exceptional judgement skills which will support the prioritization of referrals.
What you will bring to this position:
- Excellent clinical, time management, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to adapt and problem solve.
- A compassionate, flexible and positive approach to effective patient care and management.
- The ability to nurture friendly, respectful relationships and contribute to a collaborative team environment.
You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:
- A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.
- Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.
Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?
Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.
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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.
We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
Skills Required
- Experience providing mental health assessments, formulations, monitoring, and recommendations
- Ability to assess and monitor patients’ physical and mental state
- Ability to develop relapse management plans and safely manage deteriorating consumers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Clinical, time management, organisational, judgment, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to provide responsive care to consumers and carers
- Ability to collaborate within a multidisciplinary team
- Current Police Record Check or willingness to obtain one
- Current Working with Children Check or willingness to obtain one
- Current influenza vaccination and other vaccinations consistent with public health orders
- Relevant qualifications
- Ability to provide clinical supervision to junior staff
What We Do
Mercy Health is an Australian for-purpose healthcare and community-services organisation founded by the Sisters of Mercy. It provides acute and subacute hospital care, residential and home aged care, seniors living, mental health and palliative care, specialist women’s and newborn health, early parenting programs, and workforce training. The organisation operates across Australia and employs more than 10,000 people, with a mission centered on compassionate, person-centred care.
