Grade 2 Occupational Therapist - Early in Life Mental Health

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Occupational Therapist G2 at first of its kind Children's Health & Wellbeing Local 

About Us:

Monash Children's Health and Wellbeing Local – an innovative interdisciplinary service to improve the health and wellbeing of children with access to a one stop service for mental health care, health and wellbeing support for the whole family. 

Monash Health is an appointed lead provider for the new Monash Children's Health and Wellbeing Local (Monash Children’s Local), a one-stop service to provide therapy that involves all aspects of an infant's or child’s life from 0-11 years. The Monash Children’s Local has dedicated funding for community health, mental health, and family support services to enable mental health consultations, assessments, and treatments to infants, children and families in the South-eastern region of Victoria. 

Designed as a central one-stop location for mental health, health and wellbeing, Victorian families will be able to access a range of specialist medical and allied health services, including paediatricians, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech pathologists including parenting supports. 

The Monash Children’s Local sits alongside Early in Life Mental Health Service (ELMHS), Monash Children’s and the Child and Family Program, Monash Health Community. The first if its kind, this one stop shop service is designed in consultation with local communities, people with lived experience as well as local service providers, including Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations, to ensure service offerings are tailored to local needs and build on existing services and capacity. 

A unique new service for Victorian families to access specialist mental health treatment, developmental assessments, or paediatrician-led medical care with a renewed innovative focus to enable early intervention and age-appropriate care to meet development and mental health challenges in younger children. 

“It's a chance for us to change the system and do things differently to make measurable change in children's lives.  It will allow us to work together, innovatively, to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families” Victoria McKay, 

About the Role - Occupational Therapist, Grade 2 (Full time temp maternity leave position)

The Monash Children’s Local Mental Health team will provide mental health consultation, assessment, and treatment to infants, children and their families. An integral part of the Mental Health Clinicians team, the Occupational Therapist will provide: 

• Assessing and treating children 0 - 11 with mental health difficulties. This Occupational Therapist will have training, qualifications and experience in assessing and treating young people who have difficulties with their mental health and occupational functioning including specific assessment of an individual’s sensory processing and motor development. They will provide discipline specific assessment, formulation, recommendations and reports.
• Please refer to Position Description for more information.   

Temporary full-time position centrally situated at Cranbourne, with spoke sites across the catchment of Dandenong, Casey, and Cardinia and will be part of a newly co-designed service with a Transdisciplinary/ Multidisciplinary service. 

This position has funded training opportunities and include family centred practice, trauma informed care and assessments. 

About You 

You are seeking a new opportunity to work collaboratively with a passionate multidisciplinary team to deliver a range of specialist medical and allied health services to make a real difference. New year, new career opportunity to be part of a first of its kind, truly innovative program focused on making measurable change to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families. To ensure your success in this role, you will have the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge: 

• Current general registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) – Occupational Therapy, with no restrictions
• You will have experience in a mental health service and/or extensive experience in a relevant area of practice (e.g. paediatrics, statutory and non-government agencies for this age population)

• Understanding of current, relevant theory, practice knowledge and evidence in clinical practice 

• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary assessment and treatment group setting 

• Dedicated to safe best practice and quality care  

• Committed to the delivery of patient centred care and patient advocacy  

• Australian working rights  

• Current Drivers Licence  

Monash Health will offer: 

• Competitive salary 

• Salary packaging 

• Friendly and supportive culture 

• Opportunity to experience various teams 

• On-going supervision and professional development

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Chantele Edlington, Mental Health Team Leader on 0439 194 849.

Position Description can be found here

Role Statement can be found here

Appendix A can be found here

Appendix B can be found here

Appendix C can be found here

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How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’ 

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date. Respectfully, applications from Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted.

Applications close: 07 November 2024