As a mental health clinician on the Ryde Acute Community Mental Health Team, you will be a member of a multidisciplinary team that works from a blended model, providing a mixture of triage, assessment, acute intervention and care-co-ordination. The role has a focus on consumers in crisis, requiring early intervention, in addition to providing short to long-term care –coordination.

You will ensure care is delivered in collaboration with consumers, their families and carers and the multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes. You will support clients and their families and carers to ensure clinical interventions and service delivery processes are targeted and enable patients to make informed decisions in relation to their health needs.

You will be supported in this position through an orientation program, clinical supervision and excellent professional development opportunities which are highly encouraged within the service.

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Health Clinician (Level 1/2)
Remuneration: Dependent on Qualification
Hours Per Week: 24
Requisition ID: REQ471515
Salary per hour: Registered Nurse: $35.33 - $49.60
Allied Health Professional Level 1/2: $35.78 - $51.04
Psychologist: $37.70 - $55.17

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

Where you'll be working

Ryde Community Mental Health Centre, Eastwood

Ryde Hospital is having an incredible $479 million complete hospital redevelopment that will transform the delivery of healthcare for the Ryde local community.

The Ryde Hospital Redevelopment will result in new health facilities and enhanced services including emergency, ICU/critical care, inpatient units, outpatient/ambulatory care services and much more.

Construction commenced in early 2023, and will provide you with a wonderful and exciting opportunity to be part of the Ryde team to change the future health services for the Ryde Community completely.

What you'll be doing

MHDA Declaration
Each person’s unique journey of recovery will be supported by mental health drug and alcohol (MHDA) services in a way that fosters hope, purpose and resilience.
 
MHDA Statement of Intention
The intention of the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) MHDA is to provide recovery-oriented, trauma informed services that are guided by evidence based practices and collaboration.

To provide nursing and health services as a member of a multi-disciplinary community mental health team which offers triage, assessment, treatment, ongoing case management and discharge planning services to individuals in Northern Sydney Local Health Districts.

As a member of the Ryde Acute Team, you will plan, coordinate, and deliver high quality acute mental health care to consumers of the Ryde and Hunters Hill LGAs. The hours of work involve a 7 day rotating roster with morning and afternoon shifts.

About the role

1. The Ryde Acute Care Team model of care provides a combination of short-term and medium to longer-term support in the form of a multidisciplinary team approach to collaborative care.  This includes:
   Mental Health assessments to consumers within the community experiencing acute mental health problems 
   Mental Health assessments in the Ryde Hospital Emergency Department after hours 
2. Short term mental health treatment in the community often as an alternative to hospital, including care coordination and longer-term case management 
3. Collaborative care-planning for consumers transferring between hospital and community, follow up support and onward referrals where appropriate
4.  Brief therapeutic interventions

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

1. Current AHPRA registration for relevant discipline - Psychology, Occupational Therapist, Registered Nurse, Eligibility for membership with AASW for Social Workers.
2. Demonstrated, comprehensive mental health assessment and crisis intervention experience.
3. Demonstrated experience and skills in suicide risk assessment and management.
4. Experience working in community mental health and a demonstrated knowledge of the NSW Mental Health Act.
5. Extensive case management/care co-ordination skills.
6. Demonstrated ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team setting.
7. Current NSW Driver's licence and proficient in working with data systems and computer skills, in particular knowledge of Microsoft Office Word software.

Need more information?
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For role related queries or questions contact Natassa Constantinides on Natassa.Constantinides@health.nsw.gov.au or 02 9858 7777

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases including COVID-19. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

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Applications Close: 10 March 2024