Associate Nurse Manager - Community Residential Withdrawal Unit - Dandenong

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About the Role

The Associate Nurse Manager position is a clinical leadership role responsible for assisting the Nurse Manager with the day-to-day operations, clinical outcomes and management of unit staff. 

As a clinical role you will draw on your knowledge and experience in drug and alcohol, general and/or mental health to manage the withdrawal or stabilisation of alcohol and/or other drugs. The focus of this role is supporting clients within a bio-psycho-social framework throughout the withdrawal process and introducing them to options and skills to facilitate change. The ANM will play a key role as part of the multidisciplinary team in delivering a high standard of direct client care with a focus on withdrawal management, recovery and harm reduction strategies, as required. Utilising a variety of recovery focused interventions, you will develop, implement and evaluate treatment plans based on your assessment of needs.

The position requires an individual with skills which will enable them to liaise closely with a number of Inpatient and community agencies, clinical and community teams and external agencies like Victoria Police, Ambulance services or Primary Care services to ensure best practice care is provided. This will ensure comprehensive assessment, collaborative treatment design and appropriate referral of consumers presenting to the team.

Specifically the role will include:

• Management on a shift by shift basis both clinically and operationally
• Co-ordinating staff on shift to provide efficient and effective care
• Liaising and escalating  issues with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
• Managing withdrawal assessments and providing appropriate management
• Ensuring the psychoeducation group program is run
• Supporting the Nurse Manager to achieve organizational goals, ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures, and promoting and cultivating a positive unit culture
• Working as an Acting Nurse Manager as the need arises

This role will work a full rotating roster including weekends and night shift. Applicants seeking  full-time or part-time employment will be considered

About Community Residential Withdrawal Unit.

The Community Residential Withdrawal Unit (CRWU) is affiliated with a hospital based addiction medicine service, and is under the clinical governance of the Monash Health Drug & Alcohol Services Unit Head. The service is a 12 bed, short-stay alcohol, tobacco and other drug withdrawal unit that admits adult clients who are withdrawing and /or stabilising from a variety and often combination of substances.

Monash Health Drug & Alcohol Services

Monash Health Drug & Alcohol Service (MHDAS) operationally reports though the Mental Health Program of Monash Health and is committed to providing opportunities for change and growth by reducing drug use, the harms from drug use, improving physical and mental health, and reconnecting and or maintaining people’s connections to their family and the community. The principle catchment areas are the Cities of Greater Dandenong, Casey and the Shire of Cardinia with sites located in Dandenong, Pakenham, Cranbourne and Berwick.  The service employs approximately 75 EFT of multidisciplinary clinicians, including those with lived experience, across a wide range of services including:

• Community Residential Withdrawal
• Primary Health Clinic
• Needle Syringe Program – fixed site and Outreach,
• Mobile Overdose Response & Naloxone Service
• Mobile Drug Safety
• Aboriginal Metropolitan ‘Ice’ Partnership
• Youth Supported Accommodation and Outreach
• Peer Led Network trials and
• Assessment, Counselling and Non-residential withdrawal (SECADA)
• Way Out Day Program

The Southern Dual Diagnosis Service is closely aligned with the Monash Health Drug & Alcohol Service and is a resource for all MHDAS staff offering support in further development to recognise and respond effectively to persons presenting with co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Kelvin Hicks on 0410 573 809

Position Description 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. 

Applications close: December 13 2024