Hope Senior Clinician

HOPE Senior Clinician - Warragul 

Based in Gippsland, Latrobe Regional Health are looking for a HOPE Senior Clinician to join our regional Mental Health HOPE team on a parttime, parental leave relief basis until June 2024.

Reporting clinically to the Specialist and Therapeutic Programs Manager and operationally to the area managers, this role plays an important role in supporting persons at risk of death by suicide, those who express suicidal ideation, or post suicide attempt and/or repeated intention self-harm, within the catchment area or Latrobe Regional Hospital Mental Health Service.

The regional HOPE program is staffed with a dedicated, enthusiastic, passionate and supportive team of Senior Clinicians who have strong support process in place along with a well-established supervision process to ensure your success in this role.

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:

• Good leadership and problem-solving skills
• Advanced assessment skills and confidence in guiding consumers to navigate the mental health and physical wellbeing streams
• Advanced risk formulation ability
• A keen interest in suicide prevention and ability to engage with vulnerable consumers and their families/carers  
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well as part of a team

For more information about this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to contact LindaWaters on (03) 5128 0*** or *******@lrh.com.au 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.