Occupational Therapist - Flynn

Occupational Therapist – Flynn Unit (Acute Inpatient Mental Health)

• Full time, ongoing position
• Grade 2 or Grade 3, depending on experience

Latrobe Regional Health is the main provider of mental health services in Gippsland with inpatient care at the hospital and community mental health services.  Our Flynn Unit is a 31-bed unit that provides inpatient care services for people aged between 16-65 years delivering acute treatment and recovery-based interventions.

We’re looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist who is passionate about building a career in mental health.  You’ll be conducting assessments, creating intervention plans, facilitating group activities and liaising with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure safe discharge plans are achieved.

You’ll enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary team, taking a collaborative approach to deliver individualised person-centred care, to support patients with their recovery.

You will be provided with professional development opportunities, allowing you to build mental health and discipline specific skills in a supportive and growing team.  While experience in mental health is desired, it is not essential.  It is important that you have some clinical experience, however we are looking for someone that has a passion for providing the best in care and working as part of a team.

To find out more about this opportunity, we encourage you to contact Nicole Erskine on (03)5173 8257 for a confidential discussion.

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

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.