Senior Mental Health Clinician- Eating Disorders

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Flexible work options available
• Part time, Fixed term (0.8EFT until 17/03/2025)
• The successful applicant is required to work on a Monday – Wednesday due to room availability, the other day is flexible.

 

About the Role

This is a part time fixed term position at 0.8EFT, 60.8 hours per fortnight within the Department of Adolescent Medicine Eating Disorder Service.

 

You will be responsible for providing excellent evidence-based clinical care to adolescents with restrictive eating disorders – anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia nervosa and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). This involves providing individual and family assessments, as well as interventions/therapies within the outpatient and inpatient eating disorder service. You are required to maintain clinical documentation and record client contacts and outcome measures to support the team activity levels while working collaboratively with other clinical disciplines within the team and external services to provide high quality inter-disciplinary care.

 

Classification for this position will range from PL1 to PL4. The successful applicant is required to work on Monday – Wednesday due to room availability, the other day is flexible.

 

What you’ll achieve:

• Purposefully and expertly engage patients and their families in mental health care, as per the Eating Disorders Service model
• Manage a complex and varied clinical caseload providing high level of clinical expertise with independent decision making
• Foster a culture in which feedback is used as a positive strategy to enhance goals, awareness, and learning.
• Provide high quality clinical supervision and/or consultation to staff and students, and provide regular, constructive and developmental feedback to team.
•  Maintain clinical documentation, records and data as per discipline specific guidelines and RCH procedures

 

Your skills and experience

• Hold a minimum Master of Psychology degree qualification from an APAC accredited course/university
• Hold general registration with AHPRA and the Psychology Board of Australia as a Psychologist
• Have at least 5 years of experience post-general registration as a Psychologist
• Hold an endorsement with the PBA in any of the following fields of practice: Clinical, Health
• Hold Board-approved supervisor status, including Board-approval as a ‘Registrar Program Principal Supervisor’
• Continuously satisfy the PBA continuing professional development standards

• Demonstrated clinical skills and experience in restrictive eating disorders and child or adolescent mental health.

• Demonstrated experience working in a multidisciplinary care team environment and liaising with external providers in the delivery of treatment.
• Demonstrated commitment to work and contribute as part of a team

 

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

 

About the Department

The Department of Adolescent Medicine, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, is a multidisciplinary specialty department providing inpatient and outpatient care to adolescents experiencing both physical and mental health concerns. Sub-speciality teams within the Department of Adolescent Medicine include the Eating Disorders Service, specialising in treating adolescents with anorexia nervosa and other restrictive eating disorders, the Gender Service who assist children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria, The Transition Support Service providing care in transition from paediatric to adult health providers, the Young People’s Health Service who provide primary health care for marginalised and at risk youth and the Chronic Illness Peer support (ChIPS) team who facilitate peer support, leadership and participation among  adolescent and young adults aged 12-25 living with a chronic illness. Inpatient Adolescent Medicine includes the care of adolescents requiring admission to the RCH for medical conditions with psychosocial complexity, somatisation disorders and medically unstable patients with restrictive type eating disorders.

 

What we offer:

• Employee Assistance Program
• Staff immunisation
• Parkville location and close to public transport
• Discounted on-site car parking

 

Other requirements:

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
• Valid Working with Children Check
• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
• Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

 

Application process

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately, we encourage you to apply promptly!

 

For more information about this position please contact Jana Dickinson, PH: 9345 5890, email: [email protected]