Lead Family Worker - Orygen @ Home

Lead Family Worker – Orygen @ Home

• Ongoing part-time role | 8 days per fortnight
• Excellent team culture and leadership | Based in Footscray
• AH4/RPN5 | Opportunities in research and service development

Your new role:

A multidisciplinary role open to Grade 5 Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Grade 4 Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Psychologists.

• Provide training, primary and secondary consultation, and direct clinical work alongside clinicians to support the development of their skills
• Share the considerable knowledge and experience of working with families of young people with severe mental health problems with the multidisciplinary team
• Contribute to general mental health clinician tasks to ensure comprehensive and safe consumer- and family/carer-oriented care is provided in the home environment
• Provide inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA backgrounds

Your new team

Forming part of Orygen Specialist Program, a program of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Orygen @ Home is an acute service providing access to care 24-hours, 7-days per week by a multidisciplinary team completing shift work rosters, and ensuring comprehensive, collaborative and coordinated mental health care to young people aged 15 to 25 and their families/carers in Melbourne's northwest and western suburbs.

About you:

• Relevant registration and qualifications – including training in family/systems therapy and/or approved qualifications in family therapy, mediation or equivalent (required)
• Knowledge of and training in family-based approaches to mental health including the Single Session Family Consultation Framework
• Comprehensive experience in the provision of mental health assessment, treatment and case management, including with young people
• Demonstrated experience in providing supervision and support to clinical workforce, in particular other Family Workers

Benefits of working with Orygen Specialist Program:

• Receive specialist supervision, training and capacity building!
• Excellent leadership and team culture.
• You will enjoy excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term!
• Join us during this inspiring time of growth and change - career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Salary packaging, onsite car parking and close to public transport.

Interested?

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us via the details below.

Please note: recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable applications are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, and where applicable, Working With Children Check (WWCC). All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19.