Your new team:

Forming part of the Orygen Specialist Program (OSP), a program of The Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Custodial Forensic Youth Mental Health Service (FYMHS) team provides specialist youth mental health care in custodial settings to young people and their families/carers.

Orygen and Youth Justice staff will work collaboratively to support young people voluntarily admitted to the new Mental Health Unit (MHU) at Cherry Creek Youth Justice Custodial Precinct. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of something that hasn’t been done before!

Your new role:

As an integral member of the Custodial FYMHS team, you will be responsible for assisting the Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) in developing, maintaining and evaluating the MHU. In this role, you will also:

• Demonstrate superior consolidated clinical skills at a proficient level and will focus on development of clinical mental health nursing across Custodial FYMHS
• Demonstrate and uphold best practice nursing care and recovery standards
• Collaborate with the leaderships and contribute towards an appropriately skilled workforce including: mentorship, particularly to early career clinicians; bed-based nursing development in order to address priority issues

About You:

• Relevant registration and qualifications (see position description for details)
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and build relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to provide expert clinical consultancy and dissemination of key information across a range of key internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated clinical leadership within mental health nursing with proven ability to mentor and develop the mental health-nursing workforce within a coaching framework
• Knowledge and application of contemporary theories and techniques of practice that underlie mental health care and management of challenging behaviours

Benefits of working with Orygen Specialist Program:

• Join us during this incredibly exciting time of growth and change - career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging, onsite car parking and, close to public transport

Interested?

If you’re ready to make a real and positive impact amongst the youth justice population by providing high quality assessment, evidence based treatment, care team consultation / liaison and support / service linkages for young people within & exiting custody, we would love to discuss this exciting role with you in more detail. 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.

For a confidential conversation, please contact Dr Ingrid Cranston on 0417 822 204.

Please click here to view the position description.

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.