Forensicare works as a primary psychiatric assessment and treatment provider for Melbourne's Magistrate Courts as well as Victorian's prisons, including the Acute Assessment Unit and Outpatient's services at the Melbourne Assessment Prison and the Metropolitan Remand Centre.
The Mobile Forensic Mental Health Service (MobileFMHS) is a multidisciplinary team that provides specialist mental health assessment and treatment services to prisonersThis position will be based at the Melbourne Assessment Prison within the CBD (Spencer Street) and the Metropolitan Remand Centre in Deer Park.
About the role:
The Community Integration Program Clinician is a case management role with two functions:1. The case management of Forensic Patients who are on extended leave, that is, release from Thomas Embling Hospital; and2. Brokerage case management of those due to be released from selected prisons.
Duties:
Qualification, skills and experience:
Benefits
We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:
Forensicare values a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
This position is subject to a Police Check.
Forensicare promotes the following values: responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect and leadership; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.
Forensicare works as a primary psychiatric assessment and treatment provider for Melbourne’s Magistrate Courts as well as Victorian’s prisons, including the Acute Assessment Unit and Outpatient’s services at the Melbourne Assessment Prison based at – 317 Spencer St, West Melbourne.
Working within a custodial setting, the RPN3 will assess, plan, implement, evaluate and maintain a high standard of patient care.
Skills and experience:
Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.Forensicare is situated across five sites across Victoria with its largest site being Thomas Embling Hospital, located in Fairfield just 15 minutes north of the Melbourne CBD. Thomas Embling Hospital is a 116 bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care services.
The Registered Mental Health Nurse Grade 2 will be responsible for providing high quality psychiatric nursing care and maintain the therapeutic milieu.
The successful applicant will also undertake the role of a Primary Nurse and coordinate care for allocated patients.
- State-of-the-art facility at Ravenhall
- 2 Full time positions available
- Free onsite parking
Welcome to Forensicare.
Established in 1997, Forensicare is a dedicated state-wide specialist service providing quality forensic mental health services. 2017 brings us exciting changes as we significantly expand our services across our prison and hospital services.
Due for completion in late 2017, the Ravenhall Correctional Centre (RCC) in Melbourne’s west, is an exciting new development with a purpose-built forensic mental health facility. This facility will:
About the role
Working within a multidisciplinary team, this position will be delivering care within a custodial mental health bed based setting, practicing within a Recovery framework and using sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and maintain a high standard of patient care. In doing so, the Mental Health Nurse practices within the Ravenhall Charter, ensuring service integration and fidelity to the vision, mission, values and principles of the Charter.
The position performs in a Key Nurse role for an allocated group of patients, and is responsible for the overall coordination of care for this group of patients. They also perform the role of Key Worker in relation to liaison with the patient’s custodial case manager, and the integration of the Mental Health Recovery Plan with the custodial case management plan.
Nursing staff may be rotated through units to assist in building a comprehensive understanding of the acute and subacute bed based services, and also to provide professional development opportunities.
Skills and experience
We have some other relevant requirements, which are contained in the Key Selection Criteria found in the Position Description.
We value our staff and provide a range of benefits including:
We would love to hear from you, so please apply now!
- Multiple positions (full time & part time)
Working within a multidisciplinary team, these positions will be delivering care within a custodial setting, practicing within a recovery framework and using sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and maintain a high standard of patient care.
The range of services we’ll be delivering will allow nursing staff to work across a number of settings including the acute, subacute, complex & challenging behaviours and rehabilitation and reintegration units, as well as reception, outpatients, crisis assessment and ‘at risk’ services.
Join our dedicated team in providing care to women at Forensicare's Marrmak Unit in Deer Park.
Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.
Forensicare works as a primary psychiatric assessment and treatment provider for Melbourne’s Magistrate Courts as well as Victorian’s prisons, including the Marrmak Unit at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Deer Park, where this position is located.
The Marrmak Program is a mental health 20 bed residential and outpatient program that specialises in working with women in custody with mental health and complex needs.
The RPN3 will be responsible for planning, implementing, assessing, evaluating and maintaining a high standard of women patient care.
Working closely with the Unit Manager, the Associate Nurse Unit Manager (RPN3) has a leadership role to assist in achieving Unit and organisational goals. The RPN3 is responsible for providing care and facilitating recovery through the use of evidence-based treatment approaches and participation in the delivery of therapeutic programs.
The Clinical Coordinator role within the Aire and Erskine Units provide overarching support for the operational functioning of the Unit. The Clinical Coordinator will ensure the Unit's structures and practices align with the Ravenhall Charter, ensuring service integration and fidelity to the vision, mission, values and principles of the Charter.
The Clinical Coordinator is responsible for providing the multidisciplinary team with support in relation to the development, implementation and evaluation of quality initiatives. The position is also responsible for the allocation of patients to care coordination streams, including allocation to specific Key Nurses taking into account the individual patient needs, the strengths of each staff member, and the patient cohort within each stream.
We would love to hear from you, so please apply now!Forensicare values a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.This position is subject to a police check. Forensicare promotes the following values: responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect and leadership; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offer a smoke free environment.
Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.This position is located at the Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS) in Clifton Hill, 15 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD. CFMHS is a specialist state-wide agency that works with individuals who have a serious mental health illness and have offended, or are at risk of offending.
The Mental Health Community Corrections Screening Program operates within the Melbourne and Sunshine Magistrates' Courts. It aims to improve the quality of mental health screening and recommendations that are provided to the Court when Magistrates are considering the inclusion of mental health conditions within Community Corrections Orders. The position involves coordination of the MHCCSP, provision of direct line management for MHCCSP clinicians, liaison with key stakeholders, maintenance of accurate statistics and data, provision of clinical assessments and recommendations
Primarily designed to facilitate the provision of assessments, acute or continuing care and treatment for patients from the criminal justice system, the T.E.H. is a unique service provided nowhere else in Victoria.
If you are interested in working in forensic mental health at Thomas Embling Hospital (inpatient services), on a casual basis as an RPN2, we would be pleased to discuss Psychiatric Nursing opportunities with you.
All Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade-2 staff are advised of the opportunity to progress to the level of Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist (PCNS)
This classification has been designed to recognise the development of advanced clinical knowledge and clinical practice at a higher level than normally expected at the Grade-2 level.
Potential applicants must read the information sheet and application pack (refer to the attachments) as well as discuss the position with their Unit Manager before submitting an application.
The application form which is contained within the application pack must be completed and submitted as an attachment.
The Clinical Nurse Educator will convene a panel to consider applications.
The opportunity to apply for this advanced position is open ended.
Forensicare’s Prison Mental Health Services are currently comprised of the following services provided under a Funding and Healthcare Services Agreement with Justice Health:
Forensicare is currently ramping up to commence services under two contracts with private prison providers:
If you are interested in working in forensic mental health within our Prison Services, on a casual basis, we would be pleased to discuss Psychiatric Nursing opportunities with you.
We currently have casual RPN2 opportunities available at Port Phillip Prison and Ravenhall and RPN3 opportunities available within all our prison services (Ravenhall/Melbourne Assessment Prison/Dame Phyllis Frost Centre/Port Phillip Prison).
In addition to these qualifications, skills and experience, the RPN3 will also have: