• Senior  Forensic Social Worker needed; part time, ongoing position
• Located with the Problem Behaviour Program (PBP)
• Onsite parking available

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.

About the role: 

The Senior Forensic Social Worker role is part of the Problem Behaviour Program (PBP) and will provide specialist consultation and advice to PBP clinicians, related programs, family/carers and other stakeholders around clinical, systemic and forensic issues. The role will include direct forensic social work practice, including discipline specific assessment and contributions to risk management planning. The incumbent will also engage in program and service development activities within the PBP as well as education and training activities relevant to forensic social work expertise.

Duties:  

• Demonstrates highly developed conceptual and executive skills in the delivery forensic social work practice.
• Supports psychological and psychiatric treatments undertaken within the PBP by responding to individuals who present a high risk of serious violent and/or sexual offending in the community.
• Engages effectively in support, consultancy and clinical intervention including: forensic social work assessments, facilitating access to external agencies, system leadership activities, providing information and resources, contributing to individual/family and carer assessments and contributing to risk management planning.
• Holds both the Aboriginal Service Officer (ASO) and Cultural Portfolio Holder (CPH) positions and undertakes assessment or contributes to service responses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) groups.
• Participates in and contributes to the development and ongoing review of comprehensive quality improvement initiatives within the PBP.
• Works within an ethically and legally sound framework.
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills in recording and reporting information.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• Approved degree in Social Work, and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
• Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery and incorporating consumer perspectives into service delivery.
• Demonstrated minimum 5 years post registration mental health experience in a relevant social work and/or justice/forensic setting.
• Experience in undertaking comprehensive psychosocial and risk assessments, and in the planning, implementation and evaluation of clinical mental health interventions.
• Knowledge of forensic mental health and forensic mental health risk assessment.

Benefits:

 We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

• Full time, ongoing Occupational Therapist Grade 2 role
• Exciting opportunity to develop forensic mental health skills
• Located in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne
• New state of the art facility
• Free onsite parking

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.
Completed in 2017, the new medium-security men's prison is built at Ravenhall in Melbourne's west, providing world-class forensic mental health services in Victoria.
The new forensic mental health beds are located in a purpose built state of the art facility developed to international best practice standards.

About the role:

This Occupational Therapy position is based across the acute and sub-acute units of the forensic mental health units at Ravenhall Correctional Centre.

The role of the Occupational Therapist is to plan, implement, evaluate and document Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment, as a member of the multi-disciplinary team; including providing leadership to the unit group program.

Promotion of the benefits of participation and performance in meaningful occupations through liaison, collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders and external service provider, is also a component of the role.

Duties:

• Assess, interpret and intervene to improve patients’ occupational performance.
• Contribute to the creation of a therapeutic environment on the units.
• Focus on the development of life roles and skills required by patients for community adaptation.
• Encourage and facilitate the involvement of patients in the planning of individual and program based programs and promotes self-advocacy opportunities. 

Qualification, skills and experience:

• Current Registration with AHPRA.
• Approved degree in Occupational Therapy and recognised for membership of OT Australia – Australian Association of Occupational Therapists.
• Knowledge and understanding of the OT Australia – Australian Association of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and a commitment to working in a manner consistent with the code.
• Conceptual understanding of the theories of occupational performance and occupational models of intervention.
• Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery.
• Demonstrated skills in the mental health field, knowledge and understanding of the current occupational therapy approaches in working with mentally ill people.

This position requires all applicants to submit their profile on Forensicare's eCredentaling system as part of their application.
To submit your profile please click on the relevant link below.

 https://myclinicalprofile.com.au/OpenPositionLogin.aspx?UniqueId=2ced7124-dd3d-475e-9834-1cf85685d651 

Benefits:

• We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:
• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Discounted Health insurance
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

• Senior Social Worker (SW3)
• Metropolitan Remand Centre
• Full time permanent
• Onsite parking

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.
 

The Mobile Forensic Mental Health Service (MobileFMHS) is a multidisciplinary team that provides specialist mental health assessment and treatment services to prisoners.

About the role:

The MobileFMHS Senior Social Worker provides consultation, discipline-specific assessment, intervention and transition/pre-release planning for clients with impaired mental health functioning at the Metropolitan Remand Centre. The Senior Social Worker is responsible for ongoing development and planning of social work services within a multi-disciplinary team. The role involves delivery of individual and group programs to promote clients' mental health recovery, coping and functioning in custody. The Senior Social Worker holds the Cultural Portfolio holder position to enhance the mental health care of clients who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or clients from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. There is scope to provide consultation and assessment at other MobileFMHS locations.

Duties:

• To provide Social Work-specific assessment and treatment
• To deliver individual and group treatment with a mental health focus
• To provide consultation to Corrections Victoria and other stakeholders to help support clients with impaired mental health functioning
• To contribute towards further service development

Qualification, skills and experience:

• Approved degree in Social Work, or other qualifications approved for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
• Ability to deliver specialist social work service within a complex and dynamic prison environment
• Experience and skills in providing counselling within a social work framework

Benefits:

• We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:
• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

We are expanding our services to improve the care of mentally ill offenders – join us now to be part of our exciting expansion!

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Grade 3
• Full time and Part time opportunities are now available
• Based just 15 minutes from Melbourne's CBD at Thomas Embling Hospital in Fairfield
• Free car parking and great employee benefits available, including access to the gym 
• 482 sponsorship provided
• Public transport access

Forensicare is the state-wide specialist provider of forensic mental health services in Victoria. At Forensicare, we work to meet the needs of consumers with serious mental illness across Victoria. We deliver a range of programs for patients at different stages of recovery; from early intervention and prevention, inpatient care, rehabilitation and community transition support. These services are delivered through:  

• Forensic mental health hospital services
• Prison mental health services
• Community Forensic Mental Health Service
• Court Services

In 2018 we will be significantly expanding our services at Thomas Embling Hospital and we are looking for highly motivated, dedicated mental health nurses to join our experienced existing teams. 

We offer unique and generous opportunities for our staff to advance their professional skills in line with world class clinical and mental health service provision.

About the role:

Working within a multidisciplinary team our new positions will be delivering care within a secure setting, practicing within a recovery framework and using sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and maintain a high standard of patient care.  The provision of care you will be involved in delivering will allow you to work across a number of settings including the acute and rehabilitation units of the service.

The Associate Nurse Unit Manager (ANUM) is responsible for providing consumer based mental health nursing interventions as well as coordinating the resources and processes required to maintain a high standard of patient care through effective clinical leadership. The ANUM ensures adherence to organisational policies and procedures, professional standards and promotes staff education and development. The role provides management support of the unit with the Nurse Unit Manager.

Duties:

• Promotes unit culture by challenging staff and providing support to the Unit manager
• Initiates and coordinates unit projects and participate in committees that contribute to service development
• Demonstrates sound communication skills in recording and reporting information to the interdisciplinary team
• Participate in the training and supervision of nursing staff and students

Qualification, skills and experience: 

• Hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Possess current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• Knowledge of contemporary and ethical mental health nursing practice
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership and to manage resources on a shift

Benefits:

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

• Full time fixed term
• Located at Fairfield
• Onsite parking

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.

About the role:

The Graduate Nurse Program assists the graduate nurse in transition from student nurse to Registered nurse. It aims to enhance the clinical and professional confidence and competence of the graduate in a supportive environment, which fosters continuing learning, professional responsibilities and independence.

Graduates will work rostered shifts, including nights.  Rotations during the program will be split between various areas within Forensicare.

All graduates must be registered with AHPRA prior to commencement on the 14th of January 2019.

To facilitate the development of graduates into competent, knowledgeable and responsible mental health nurses, all students will be enrolled into the first year of a Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing, with the opportunity to continue onto a postgraduate year, dependent on the successful completion of academic and clinical components of the first year.  Study leave will be provided to meet academic requirements.

Application Process: 

• It is desirable that all applicants be registered through computer match (or give reason why they are not).  They must include Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) as one of their computer match preferences.
• Please include (attach) a cover letter, Resume (including at least one professional and one clinical reference), passport size photo, most current academic transcript (with key), mental health student clinical appraisal(s).
• All applicants must have a tour of the hospital or have completed a clinical placement with Forensicare.

To RSVP for an information session please visit our website http://www.forensicare.vic.gov.au/careers/graduate-nursing-program/

For all other enquiries please contact the Graduate Program Co-ordinaterAdrienne.Lipscomb@forensicare.vic.gov.au

Interviews are scheduled to take place between the 6th August and 2nd of September.

Benefits

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Discounted Health insurance
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Well being Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

We are expanding our services to improve the care of mentally ill offenders – join us now to be part of our exciting expansion!

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Grade 2
• Full time and Part time opportunities are now available
• Based just 15 minutes from Melbourne's CBD at Thomas Embling Hospital in Fairfield
• Free car parking and great employee benefits available, including access to the gym 
• 457 sponsorship provided
• Public transport access

Forensicare is the state-wide specialist provider of forensic mental health services in Victoria. At Forensicare, we work to meet the needs of consumers with serious mental illness across Victoria.
We deliver a range of programs for patients at different stages of recovery; from early intervention and prevention, inpatient care, rehabilitation and community transition support.
These services are delivered through:

• Forensic mental health hospital services
• Prison mental health services
• Community Forensic Mental Health Service
• Court Services

In 2018 we will be significantly expanding our services at Thomas Embling Hospital and we are looking for highly motivated, dedicated mental health nurses to join our experienced existing teams. 

We offer unique and generous opportunities for our staff to advance their professional skills in line with world class clinical and mental health service provision.

About the role:

Working within a multidisciplinary team our new positions will be delivering care within a secure setting, practicing within a recovery framework and using sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and maintain a high standard of patient care.  The provision of care you will be involved in delivering will allow you to work across a number of settings including the acute and rehabilitation units of the service.

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.

Duties:

• Deliver evidence based therapeutic practices
• Integrate security with therapeutic practices
• Administer and monitor the effects of medication
• Contribute to therapeutic programs for individuals and groups of patients consistent with a recovery approach
• Provide support and education to carers/significant others

Qualification, skills and experience: 

• Hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Possess current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• Knowledge of contemporary and ethical mental health nursing practice

Benefits

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

• Casual RPN2 opportunities available
• Located at Thomas Embling Hospital in Fairfield

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.

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.

Qualification, skills and experience: 

• Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA) as a Psychiatric Nurse

Benefits

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Post graduate scholarship programs
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

• Registrar HM25-HM30
• Rotations across the Forensicare sites
• Full time fixed term

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.

About the role:

Fixed term positions for Registrars will be available from August 2018, February 2019, August 2019 and February 2020.

The Registrar will contribute forensic mental health advice to multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the delivery of high quality direct care services and programs.

Applicants for this position will be able to participate in Forensicare's Training Program for Registrars, which is accredited as meeting the standards of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists for both Generalist and Forensic subspecialty training. 

All posts are RANZCP accredited and supervised by RANZCP accredited supervisors.

Senior Medical Officers with experience in Forensic Psychiatry will also be considered.

Duties: 

• Take a lead role in the assessment and management of patients and prisoners under the direction and supervision of the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
• Prepare and present reports to the Mental Health review Board.

Skills and experience:

• Experience at the Registrar level in Forensic Psychiatry is highly desirable
• Eligibility for, and a commitment to Advanced Training in Forensic Psychiatry is preferential
• Demonstrated responsibility for achievement of training goals

Benefits

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Discounted Health insurance
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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. 

• Sessional
• Located across Forensicare sites and prison services

We are seeking a sessional Consultant Psychiatrist to work with a dynamic team to deliver forensic psychiatric services in a prestigious state wide service with a high profile in psychiatry. The Psychiatrist will be primarily involved in providing specialist clinical services and will have an opportunity to undertake research and academic development. 

The Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) is a dedicated statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.  Forensicare, located in Fairfield an inner Melbourne suburb, is a state-wide specialist mental health service that provides quality clinical services. It has developed a strong national and international reputation for research, teaching and service excellence.

Applicants should have:

• Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists or equivalent.
• Experience in forensic psychiatry is highly desirable but not essential

 
Enquiries to:  Dr Danny Sullivan, Executive Director Clinical Services

Benefits

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Post graduate scholarship programs
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

Fornsicare 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 satisfactory 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.

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.

• Casual RPN2 and RPN3 opportunities
• Western suburbs location (Ravenhall, Truganina, Deer Park)
• CBD location (Spencer Street)

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria. 

Forensicare’s Prison Mental Health Services are currently comprised of the following services provided under a Funding and Healthcare Services Agreement with Justice Health:

• Melbourne Assessment Prison - a 16-bed Acute Assessment Unit, specialist clinics, outpatient services and a reception assessment program;
• Dame Phyllis Frost Centre - a 20-bed mental health residential program, outreach support and therapeutic day program for women;
• Metropolitan Remand Centre – the Mobile Forensic Mental Health Service – mental health assessment, psychological intervention, mental health case management and transitions/pre-release planning for prisoners on remand with severe impaired mental functioning.

Forensicare is currently ramping up to commence services under two contracts with private prison providers:

• Ravenhall Correctional Centre - holding 1,000 adult male prisoners, with the capacity to accommodate up to 1,3000 prisoners to meet potential future demand.
• Commencing in September 2017, Forensicare will become the primary mental health provider at Port Phillip Prison, operating a 30 bed psychosocial rehabilitation unit and a mental health outpatients program

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).

Qualification, skills and experience:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA) as a Psychiatric Nurse
• Previous experience working within a custodial setting would be an advantage

In addition to these qualifications, skills and experience, the RPN3 will also have:

• Demonstrated comprehensive risk assessments skills and ability to plan and implement risk management plans.

Benefits

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Post graduate scholarship programs
• Ongoing training and full orientation
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff gym, staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.