Senior Clinician - Mental Health Forensic Assessment and Consultation Team

An innovative opportunity for a passionate clinician to join a specialist mental health assessment and consultation service working with a unique forensic patient group.  

Monash Health is a great place to work

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. 

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Our Team

Providing service across South-Eastern Victoria, the Mental Health Forensic Assessment and Consultation Team (MHFACT) is staffed by a senior specialist multidisciplinary team that provide clinical service enhancement to patients, their families and treating teams. Our patients are showing signs of mental ill health and have developed a pathological grievance, have become fixated or may be at risk of radicalisation. We work outside the normal case management pathway providing flexible interventions and support dependent upon the unique needs of this vulnerable patient group and the systems supporting them. The team receive referrals from the Victorian Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (VFTAC), a joint Victoria Police and Forensicare service, who identify individuals who pose a threat both to themselves and the Victorian community. MHFACT are part of Forensic Mental Health Services that also includes the Forensic Clinical Specialist (FCS) Program.

A Day in the Life

With offices in Dandenong but working flexibly to meet the needs of patients across South-Eastern Victoria, the senior mental health clinician will work with patients presenting with mental health conditions and a range of forensic issues. This may include primary consultations with patients, secondary and tertiary consultations with a patient’s service system, the provision of risk assessment reports utilising structured professional judgement tools, enhanced treatment planning, coordination of case conferences with a patent’s key stakeholders, the provision of specialist interventions and the use of brokerage. The senior mental health clinician will be supported to increase their skills working with patients with forensic issues and further hone their formulation and report writing skills.

For Enquiries please contact Glenn Batterley on 0472 861 015.

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We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

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: 11 October 2024