AddressThis role could also be offered as 2 roles with job share
About Us:
Pathways to Mental Health supports people to realise their potential and build a meaningful, hopeful life. Participants increase their capacity through skills, knowledge and resilience building.
Our focus on ‘Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share’ is at the heart of our work and means that to be physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally healthy, we must nurture our connection to each other and the natural environment.
Our evidence-based services and teams support participants to be at the centre of this work deciding how to build these ingredients into their lives. We believe in simplicity and empowering participants to choose their own recovery journey.
Our Service:
Pathways’ Mental Health Nursing Service (MHNS) provides bulk billed Mental Health nursing support in coordination with GP’s and Psychiatrists in primary care settings. The service is funded by Healthy North Coast (Primary Health Network North Coast) and is specifically for people living with serious and enduring Mental Health issues. Pathways also provides therapeutic support services in a Nature / Farm Based setting including equine / animal assisted therapy and DBT informed skills based training.
On offer:
- Based in Northern New South Wales
- Up to Full Time position - ongoing subject to funding
- Part Time position may be negotiable
- Medium to long term, recovery oriented clinical work
- Training and development opportunities
- Opportunities for collaborative working with our other services
- Animal Assisted and Nature Based Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- NDIS Support Workers
- NDIS Short Term Accommodation
- Supportive team environment
Role Overview:
MHNS target clients with severe mental disorders during periods of significant disability with services maintained until the client’s disorder is no longer significantly impacting their social, personal and work life. Mental Health Nurses work with psychiatrists and general practitioners to deliver a range of services and support, for example, monitoring a client’s Mental Health, managing their medication and improving linkages with health professionals and clinical service providers. These services are provided in a variety of settings tailored to meet the individual needs of the client. Our therapeutic support services and behaviour supports are mainly provided to NDIS participants in a farm based environment.
MHNS client eligibility and referral is determined by GPs and psychiatrists and must meet the below criteria:
- Diagnosed with a mental illness disorder
- The disorder is significantly impacting the client’s social, personal and work life
- The client has been hospitalised at least once for treatment for their disorder, or at risk of hospitalisation if appropriate treatment and care is not provided
- The client’s GP or psychiatrist has primary responsibility for the client’s clinical Mental Health care
- The client has consented to receive services and/or support from a Mental Health Nurse
- Together with the Mental Health Nurse, a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan is developed by GPs or an equivalent plan developed by psychiatrists. These plans include specific reference to the roles and responsibilities of both the Mental Health Nurse and the treating GP. Services and support are provided according to the plan with GPs and psychiatrists regularly reviewing plans with the Mental Health Nurse.
Requirements:
- Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (or willing and eligible to gain ACMHN Credentials).
- Experience with farm animals desirable but not essential (opportunities for the right applicant to also work in our animal / nature based department
- Occupational Therapist with experience in Mental Health and ideally nature based / animal assisted interventions / behaviour supports experience also an advantage
- Extensive & demonstrated experience providing clinical services to people experiencing serious Mental Health issues including sound risk and safety assessment and management skills
- Well-developed judgment and evaluation skills demonstrating a working understanding assessment and care planning
- Sound understanding of the public, non-government and private Mental Health systems and programs and associated non-Mental Health programs in a community setting
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills showing an ability and sensitivity to work with people within a clinical , recovery oriented framework
- Proven ability to develop collaborative working relationships to facilitate co-ordinated clinical and non-clinical supports
- Demonstrated skills in organisation and time-management, including the ability to work autonomously and balance multiple tasks
- Excellent verbal communication and writing skills
Pathways is an inclusive workplace and we encourage applications from diverse backgrounds. This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of Mental Health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.
Post hours to be finalised following application / preference to part time / job share
Apply now!
To apply send a copy of your CV and a cover letter addressing your suitability against the requirements above to: Matt Parry - Clinical Services Manager.
****@pathwaysmh.com.au
