City of Wodonga, VIC, Australia
Posted Wednesday 20 May 2026 at 2:00 pm | Expires Thursday 18 June 2026 at 1:59 pm
Location and Remuneration
* Based in Shepparton or Wodonga (location can be negotiated depending on applicant), includes travel across the Hume region
* $112,470 - $121,113 (RPN4) + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Please note: Applications will be assessed as received and position may close earlier than indicated.
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 area mental health and wellbeing services (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.
* 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‐centred and family/carer inclusive care, incorporating consumer and family and carer perspectives into service delivery at both individual and organisational wide level.
Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience
Registered Psychiatric Nurse. Must have current unrestricted registration with AHPRA and a post‐graduate qualification in mental health nursing or equivalent.
Registered Nurse RPN4
Registered Psychiatric Nurse. Must have current unrestricted registration with AHPRA and a post‐graduate qualification in mental health nursing or equivalent.
Benefits
* Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all team members.
* Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi‐disciplined Teams.
* Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses.
* A leading, multi‐faced approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team‐based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
* Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
* Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self‐referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work‐related matters.
* A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programmes.
Immunisation Requirements
Agency requires that the candidate be up to date with relevant immunisations.
Police Check
This position is subject to a Police Check.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Forensicare promotes our guiding principles of RESPECT, INTEGRITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, HUMAN RIGHTS and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.
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