Hope Senior Clinician

Senior Clinician Hospital Outreach Post Suicidal Engagement (HOPE)

Latrobe Regional Health has a number of exciting opportunities for suitably qualified, Mental Health Clinicians to join our expanding HOPE program.

The program currently has multiple vacancies across our catchment areas as follows:

• East Gippsland - Bairnsdale/Orbost up to full time, ongoing 
• Central Gippsland - Traralgon & Sale up to full time, fixed term - 2x positions available until November
• West Gippsland - Wonthaggi 0.9 EFT, ongoing 
• West Gippsland - Warragul 0.8 EFT, 6 month leave relief position

The Specialist and Therapeutic Programs work across the entire region. The Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (HOPE) program provides support for people at the point of hospital discharge from Emergency Departments (ED) who are identified as at-risk of suicide or those who express suicidal ideation and/or repeated intentional self-harm.

The Senior HOPE Clinician is responsible for providing assertive, tailored and evidence based clinical outreach and support alongside psychosocial support for a period of up to three months. The program will also provide support to the person’s carers and families to identify and build the protective factors that help to reduce the risk of suicide and suicide attempts. The Senior Clinician will drive the HOPE program to be the organisational leader in the implementation of the Zero Suicide (ZS) approach. This includes using the Suicide Prevention Pathway (SPP) and structured interventions with a focus on both clinical and psychosocial drivers of suicidality

LRH employees enjoy access to:

• Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering a range of health education and wellbeing services
• Access to ongoing development through daily education sessions, bespoke training and career & study support
• Tailored flexible work options to support work life balance, including ADO’s, 5 weeks leave, regional salary packaging and additional purchased leave
• Fantastic social club activities and diverse and inclusive workplace activities
• Workplace Wellbeing programs and activities uniquely designed for LRH staff

We are looking for candidates with:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience post completion of mental health specialist training
• Relevant clinical experience in mental health services with well-developed organisational skills
• Expertise in assessing and formulating suicide and self-risk and then developing safety plans that address suicide drivers and lethal means interventions
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to collaboratively consult and liaise with other consumers, carers, staff members and other relevant agencies
• A strong commitment to providing consumer and family focused mental health care
• Ability to provide leadership, advocate and think creatively to develop innovative ways of providing mental health care to meet consumer and carer needs
• Expertise in the delivery of collaborative care in in partnership with consumers and carers
• Knowledge and commitment to utilising family friendly, trauma informed and recovery-based models of care
• Ability to work collaboratively with peer and lived experience workers
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with in ternal and external organisations
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well as part of a team

For more information about these exciting opportunities, we encourage you to contact LindaWaters on (03) 5128 0*** for a confidential discussion.

About LRH

LRH was proud to be the recipient of the 2022 Premier’s Health Service of the Year (Medium) Award.  This prestigious award recognises the amazing work of our team in driving change and improvement in the health outcomes for the Victorian community.

We are located 150 km east of Melbourne, and LRH is the regional provider of a broad range of specialist health services including hospital based, sub-acute and mental health services across Gippsland.

Now is an exciting time to join the LRH team, with $217 million expansion nearing completion, offering improved maternity and paediatric facilities, larger intensive care unit, increase medical and surgical beds and additional operating theatres.

Explore all the great things happening at LRH – www.lrh.com.au and take the next step on your career journey by submitting your application for this and other roles here - https://lrh.mercury.com.au

Diversity and Inclusion

We actively embrace workforce diversity, equity and inclusion, and encourage applications from across our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  LRH’s Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted on (03) 5173 8***.

IMPORTANT:  All staff employed in the healthcare sector are required to be vaccinated for 3 COVID-19 doses and current season influenza vaccination, unless a valid medical exemption applies.