Job Requisition ID: 3962
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Berwick, VIC, AU, 3806
- Employment Type: Full Time Fixed Term
- Posting Date: 14 Apr 2025
**Monash Health is a great place to work**
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**Embark on a rewarding career and be part of a team where your dedication makes a difference in people's lives**
**About the Role**
Join our team as a Mental Health Clinician on a full time, fixed term basis until January 2026. Predominantly based in Berwick, with travel to other sites may be required, this position is open to any discipline - Psychologist, OT, SW Speech Path, RPN.
No two days will be the same as you work within an established, friendly and supportive team environment, working closely together to care for clients (patients) along with providing opportunities for staff development and growth in areas that staff are passionate about. Taking a team focus on delivery of care, our primary focus is on a patient's safe journey through theatre. We have a strong education focus and encourage staff to further develop their skills, along with being a part of a friendly and social environment to work in. We are a tight knit team who are collaborative and support one another and value all of our staff. We offer clinical education sessions, training on the job and career progression to enable you to further develop your Clinical and Leadership skills.
**About ELMHS**
Early in Life Mental Health Services (ELMHS) provides assessment and treatment for infants, children, adolescents, young people and their families. We work with the 0-18 age group in the Southern Region, providing a comprehensive assessment service and a range of treatment options including inpatient treatment in times of crisis, community (outpatient) treatment, group programs, family therapy, and specialist services. We work with families to address a number of complex issues they may be experiencing, including school refusal, parent/child relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, trauma related issues, self-harm, suicidal thinking, eating disorders, neuro developmental presentations and psychosis.
We also work collaboratively with families, schools and other agencies to create identified areas for change and work strongly from a relational and systemic framework. With exposure to a multidisciplinary team led by consultant psychiatrists, we provide medium term treatment for children, adolescents and their families in the City of Casey, City of Greater Dandenong, and the Shire of Cardinia.
**About You**
Seeking to grow our dedicated and knowledgeable team, we are looking for you to bring your demonstrated skills and experience in case management and assessment, working with children and families within a multidisciplinary team. You are adaptable to a changing environment as we work together to deliver first class service. Alongside your caring and engaging manner, you have a positive work attitude, strong communication skills and a strong people-person focus allowing you to engage with our clients (patients) and their families. On a personal level, you are:
- dedicated to safe best practice and quality care
- committed to delivering quality care, service and advocacy
- enthusiastic, compassionate and able to work collaboratively
- excited to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence
- an advocate of Monash Health's Strategic Guiding Principles
Please refer to the relevant Position Description or Role Statement for qualification requirements.
**In Return**
Ours is a connected team with strong shared values and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Ours is also a highly skilled, collaborative and welcoming multidisciplinary team where the only limit in your career is you. As a valuable member of a wider team, we are committed to working with you to become your professional best. There is access to resources to support you in this position, we offer clinical education sessions, on the job training and career progression to enable you to further develop your Clinical and Leadership skills whilst role modelling excellence and delivering a high standard of client(patient) centred care. There is no better time to join us and here's just a few reasons why:
- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills and knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
- mentorship and career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums and conferences
- a supportive learning setting, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies
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