• 6 month part time (weekend role) fixed term position
• Based in Thomas Embling Hospital, Fairfield
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free 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 136 bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing

About the role:

This position will promote and facilitate a variety of campus wide therapeutic programs through group facilitation and promotion of participation in meaningful occupations over the weekend. The occupational therapist will play an active role in the development of a sense of community and connection across the campus, through promoting choice, participation and using engagement to support other therapeutic goals. 

Duties:

• Group program faciliation, including open and closed groups
• Creating and fostering a therapeutic millieu to create a sense of social participaiton 
• Completing intervention planning, evaluation and review as required 

Skills and experience:

• Familiarity with the Model of Human Occupation as a governing clinical framework
• Strong written and verbal clinical reasoning and communication skills
• Confidence with planning and facilitating group programs- including activity based, vocational rehabilitation and social/leisure based
• Proactive and able to identify alternative solutions and approaches
• Understanding and awareness of the recovery model and a strong belief in the importance of occupation for health and wellbeing 
• Experience in working with people with a mental illness and promoting functional skills and participation via occupational-focused practice.

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

• Approved degree in Occupational Therapy recognised for membership of OT Australia – Australian Association of Occupational Therapists.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential

This position is subject to a Police Check.

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

 
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 opportunity
• Located in Fairfield, 15 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD
• Free on-site parking 
• $58,978 + 9.5% super per annum, dependent on 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.

About the role:
You will coordinate and deliver activity based therapeutic programs to patients in an acute episode of care as well as assisting with daily care requirements. In consultation with the multi-disciplinary team you will independently plan, implement and evaluate group sessions and other activities that address social, recreational, and activities of daily living. You will work rostered flexible shifts which may include weekends (up to one per roster cycle of care).

About you:
You will hold full or partial completion of a qualification in a relevant field (e.g. Cert or Diploma in disability support, mental health support, allied health assistant, welfare, or similar) or be willing to work towards such a qualification while in the position. You will have knowledge and understanding of the needs of mentally ill patients and an awareness of the issues of provision of care in a forensic environment, as well as an ability to form positive working relationships with patients through establishing rapport.

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

• Great salary packaging conditions
• Excellent leave entitlements
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: gym and pool access, Staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

This position is subject to a Police Check. 

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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 6 month contract
• Based in Ravenhall Correctional Centre
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free onsite parking

About Forensicare and Ravenhall Correctional Centre:

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 located in Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne's west, providing world-class forensic mental health services in Victoria in a purpose-built state of the art facility developed to international best practice standards.

About the role:

The role of the senior Social Worker is to oversee and provide operational support and leadership to Social Work service delivery within correctional settings. The senior Social Worker will ensure the Social Work structures and practices align with organisational values and vision

Duties:

• Contribute to the ongoing development and strategic planning of social work services across the broader Forensicare service system.
• Providie clinical supervision to experienced Social Workers, the position in conjunction with the Chief Social Worker will provide support and supervision to the lived experience positions of: Family & Carer Advocate; Consumer Consultant; and Aboriginal Health & Wellbeing Worker.
• Hold the service liaison portfolio between Forensicare and cultural and linguistically diverse and Aboriginal services/organisations both within and outside of Ballerrt Yeram-boo-ee, as well as other key discharge/transition services.
• Provide expert advice and consultation on complex clinical and social work matters within the prison-based services and on matters relating to family and Carer engagement, support and brokerage. 

Skills and experience:

• Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery.
• Extensive clinical knowledge and experience in social work.
• Staff management and supervision experience.
• Demonstrated ability to establish rapport and to work collaboratively, flexibly and responsibly with members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated skills in the mental health and/or forensic field, knowledge and understanding of the needs of mentally ill people and of the issues of care delivery in forensic mental health.
• Ability to examine own performance, identifying strengths and limitations, and to engage constructively in clinical supervision, with a commitment to applying knowledge learned in to practice.
• Possess good interpersonal and organisational skills, and the ability to prepare and deliver written and verbal reports of a high standard.

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

• Approved degree in Social Work and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
• This position is subject to a Police Check.

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

 
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
• Based at Ravenhall Correctional Centre
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free onsite parking

About us:

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 located in Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne's west, providing world-class forensic mental health services in Victoria in a purpose-built state of the art facility developed to international best practice standards.

About the role:

The social work position is based in the 10 bed Tambo psychosocial, rehabilitation program based at Ravenhall Correctional Centre. The Tambo unit focusses on preparing and supporting men with their transition from prison into the community and creating community linkages.

The Social Worker is responsible for the ongoing development and planning of social work services to achieve and maintain a high standard of patient care, recognising the needs of both individuals and families; within the boundaries set by professional standards, legislative requirements, organisational policies, practices and directives. The position is required to complete psychosocial assessments and interventions, as well as educate and consult with members of the multidisciplinary team regarding social and systemic issues, advocating for patients’ rights and entitlements. The position utilises social work models to intervene in family systems in order to bring about therapeutic change and applies social work approaches to fostering relationships with relevant agencies and team members.

Duties:

• Demonstrate skills in the appropriate assessment of patient discharge/release needs, and matching these with relevant services for the effective preparation and ongoing support of patients re-entering the community.
• Undertake structured family assessments, examining support structures and need for psychosocial or legal education and referral to specific community-based services.
• Demonstrate highly developed skills when undertaking social work assessments of patients within a multi-disciplinary corrections setting.
• Demonstrate an ability to use good judgement in relation to complex case and system issues.

Skills and experience:

• Sound knowledge of available community services and resources and demonstrated ability to broker and link patients to these services, particularly in the provision of relevant services upon re-entry to the community.
• Ability to undertake comprehensive social work assessments and to plan, implement and evaluate social work interventions for mentally ill people within a complex service environment.
• Demonstrated commitment to advocacy and social justice within the provision of social work services.
• Proven experience in a statutory field and a demonstrated ability to understand and interpret relevant legislation, including the Mental Health Act 2014, Sentencing Act 1991, the Crimes Act 1948 and the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997, Guardianship and Administration Act 1986.

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

• Approved degree in Social Work and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
• This position is subject to a Police Check.

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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, permanent
• Based in Thomas Embling Hospital
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free 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 136 bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care. 

About the role:

Within a combined inpatient facility comprising an Acute and Continuing care Program, provide support to patients within the framework of the multi-disciplinary team to enhance the quality of the therapeutic program. 

Duties:

• In consultation with the multi-disciplinary team independently plan, implement and evaluate group sessions and other activities that address social, recreational, and activities of daily living both within the hospital and the community.
• Undertakes welfare tasks focussed on patient’s basic needs including assisting the patient with clothing, banking, and liaising with Centrelink.
• Throughout the patient’s admission participates in the establishment and maintenance of effective links with other key agencies and carers.
• Undertakes safe, effective transportation and escort of patients where required.
• Assists patients/Unit with practical support activities where required (eg. shopping).

Skills and experience:

• Full or partial completion of a qualification in a relevant field (e.g. Certificate or Diploma in disability support, mental health support, allied health assistant, welfare, or similar) OR willingness to work towards such a qualification via professional development and formal courses while in the position.
• A current Victorian driver’s licence.
• An ability to establish positive working relationships with patients through establishing rapport.
• Ability to motivate and facilitate patient participation in a broad range of therapeutic programs, including group work while providing support and supervision as appropriate.
• A police check will be required prior to any appointment and will be periodically carried out during your employment.

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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/OT3
• Based in Ravenhall Correctional Centre
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• 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 located in Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne's west, providing world-class forensic mental health services in Victoria in a purpose-built state of the art facility developed to international best practice standards.

About the role:

The role of the Senior Occupational Therapist is to plan, implement, evaluate and document Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment, and undertake required duties as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

Duties:

• Facilitation of OT specific assessment and interventions
• Contribute to the creation of a therapeutic environment
• Review and evaluate and practice in order to maintain high standards of care
• Engage in team development and individual supervision
• Facilitate students and quality improvement initiatives

Skills and experience:

• Ability to multi-task and manage competing demands
• Contribute to working committees that influence strategic planning of service provision
• Demonstrated awareness of relevant legislation and their application to clinical practice

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

• Approved degree in Occupational Therapy recognised for membership of OT Australia – Australian Association of Occupational Therapists.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential
• This position is subject to a Police Check.

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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.

Female Specialist Peer Worker- based at Thomas Embling Hospital

• Part-time / ongoing / PSO2
• Based in Fairfield
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free 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 136 bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care.

About the role:

The purpose of this position is to provide support and advocacy for female consumers during admission to Thomas Embling Hospital. The Female Specialist Peer Support Worker (FSPSW) will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team on behalf of female consumers and provide assistance to female consumers during their recovery journey. The FSPSW will also work as part of the Lived Experience team.

Duties:

• Be aware of and address, through focussed practice, inequities faced by female consumers.
• Sharing recovery strategies and stories based on your own lived experience.
• Attend clinical reviews and contribute effectively to clinical review processes and team activities. 
• Educating Consumers about communication skills, rights and responsibilities, self-advocacy and recovery.

Skills and experience

• Experience in a similar designated consumer lived experience role.

• Qualifications in mental health, or willingness to work towards such.

• Understand the complex challenges faced by consumers in the Forensic Mental Health system.

• Must have lived experience as a consumer of mental health services. Considerable experience in a similar designated consumer lived experience role.

This position is subject to a Police Check. 

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

‘Forensicare considers that being female is a genuine occupational requirement for this position under s 26of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic)’

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.

• Part-time, Fixed-Term P3 position 
• Based in Barwon Prison
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free onsite parking

MobileFMHS

Forensic mental health is a specialist area within the mental health service system. The services provided by Forensicare address the needs of offenders experiencing mental health issues, the mental health sector, the justice sector and the general community. The Mobile Forensic Mental Health Service (MobileFMHS) is a multidisciplinary team that provides specialist mental health assessment and treatment services to prisoners. This position is based at HM Barwon prison, Lara.

As a psychologist within MobileFMHS, your tasks include

• Discipline-specific psychological assessment of a range of mental health issues, such as high-prevalence mental health disorders, personality disorders, psychosis and trauma symptomatology
• Individual intervention and delivery of group-based treatment programs to promote clients' use of effective coping skills for mental health difficulties 
• Consultation and training for other service providers to identify mental health issues in people in custody, and facilitate clients' coping whilsts in prison
• P3 psychologist who has endorsed supervisor status: Provision of supervision to P2 psychologists and interns

Qualification and Experience Requirements

• Registered as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA)
• Masters or Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from an APS accredited course of equivalent, OR Doctorate degree in Forensic Psychology from an APS accredited course or equivalent 
• Endorsement or eligibility for endorsement by AHPRA in the area of clinical psychology and/or forensic psychology
• Expressions of Interest from P3 psychologists, or P2 psychologists with relevant work experience, are welcome and will be considered. 
• Previous working experience in a mental health setting, correctional service, or forensic mental health service would be an advantage

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

Psychology

• Masters or Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from an APS accredited course or equivalent, OR Doctorate degree in Forensic Psychology from an APS accredited course or equivalent.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential

This position is subject to a Police Check.

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

 
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 12 month contract for RPN4, OT3, P3 and SW3
• Based in various prison locations in Metropolitan Melbourne
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free onsite parking

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, reception and at risk assessment program;
• Dame Phyllis Frost Centre – Marrmak a 20-bed mental health residential program, outreach support and therapeutic day program for women; reception and at risk assessment program
• 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. Reception assessment program and post reception services.
• Ravenhall Correctional Centre - as a sub-contractor to the GEO group, the FMH services comprises of a bed based service for 75 prisoners and a large outpatients program. 
• Port Phillip Prison - as a sub-contractor to G4S Correctional Services, Forensicare operates a 30-bed psychosocial rehabilitation unit and a mental health outpatients program.

About the role:

The CIP Clinician role focuses on providing short-term, pre and post release support to a nominated patient caseload, ensuring the identified patients receive appropriate mental health care upon their release and are appropriately linked with other supports such as AMHS, NGOs, primary health providers and other relevant community support services. The CIP Clinician works collaboratively with relevant Forensicare clinical teams and other stakeholders in planning and implementing discharge plans for allocated patients.

Duties:

• Provide high quality intensive outreach as part of a patient's integration into the community following release from prison.
• Provide high quality assessment and intervention for high risk clients in the community, including the formulation of initial and ongoing risk assessments of patients, including the development of crisis plans when required.
• Work collaboratively with Forensicare clinical teams, Transition and Reintegration staff and other relevant stakeholders in developing release plans for patients.
• Foster and maintain professional relationships with AMHS, NGOs, other key stakeholders.

Skills and experience:

• Approved qualification in nursing, social work, psychology or occupational therapy and current registration with AHPRA where relevant. Social Workers must be eligible for membership with the AASW.
• A minimum of 5 years post qualification experience within mental health, preferably recent experience in community mental health setting or a demonstration of significant and extensive experience working within a secondary/tertiary mental health service.
• Thorough understanding and demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer Recovery, including the modelling and leading of Recovery focused initiatives.
• Commitment to and demonstrated ability in working collaboratively and effectively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience and competency in planning, implementing and evaluating complex case management interventions with people with serious mental illnesses.

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

<Nursing>

• Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)

<Psychology>

• Masters or Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from an APS accredited course or equivalent, OR Doctorate degree in Forensic Psychology from an APS accredited course or equivalent.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential

<Occupational Therapy>

• Approved degree in Occupational Therapy recognised for membership of OT Australia – Australian Association of Occupational Therapists.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential

<Social Work>

• Approved degree in Social Work and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

This position is subject to a Police Check.

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

 
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 (6 months)
• Multidisciplinary position – RPN4, P3, OT3, SW3
• Based at Ravenhall Correctional Centre
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free onsite parking

Forensicare (the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) is the leading provider of forensic mental health services across Victoria. We deliver recovery-focused programs to consumers with serious mental illnesses across the Victorian justice system, mental health sector, and the community--from early intervention and prevention, to inpatient care, rehabilitation, and community transition support.

Our services are delivered through:

• Thomas Embling Hospital: a secure mental health hospital
• Prison mental health services throughout Victoria
• Community Forensic Mental Health Service

We also work in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology through the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science to deliver a forensic mental health research program, specialist training, and ongoing professional education.

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 located in Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne's west, providing world-class forensic mental health services in Victoria in a purpose-built state of the art facility developed to international best practice standards.

About the role:

The Clinical Training Educator is responsible for ensuring that Forensicare delivers the contractually required training to GEO and other service providers at the Ravenhall Correctional Centre. This position will continue to develop and implement the suite of mental health training provided to pre-service and bridging programs for GEO custodial staff, including suicide and self-harm minimisation and refresher programs.

Duties:

• Provide leadership in planning, developing, implementing and evaluation of training and development activities, including online learning activities.
• Coordinate and monitor the training programs delivered by Forensicare to GEO and other service providers at the Ravenhall Correctional Centre.
• Coordinate, and contribute to, the delivery of the Mental Health and Wellbeing information session within the Prisoner induction and orientation program.

Skills and experience:

• Demonstrated training and development experience in the Health sector.
• Proven ability to coordinate, facilitate and evaluate training and development programs.
• Experience in online training module development.
• Understanding and delivery of adult based learning principles, and contemporary learning programs.

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

• Relevant tertiary qualification and/or commensurate experience in a similar role.
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (Essential)
• Relevant qualification & registration according to discipline as per below

Nursing

• Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)

Psychology

• Masters or Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from an APS accredited course or equivalent, OR Doctorate degree in Forensic Psychology from an APS accredited course or equivalent.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential

Occupational Therapy

• Approved degree in Occupational Therapy recognised for membership of OT Australia – Australian Association of Occupational Therapists.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)
• The successful candidate will be required to register their qualifications on eCredential

Social Work

• Approved degree in Social Work and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

Benefits:

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

• Great salary packaging conditions & leave entitlements
• Bonus payment for relevant postgrad qualifications
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: Staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as 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.

• Multiple RPN2 opportunities available
• Attractive rates and great salary packaging conditions
• Free 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 136 bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care.

About the role:
To meet the needs of our busy acute, sub-acute and rehabilitation services, we are seeking passionate and patient-care orientated Registered Psychiatric Nurses with recent experience to join our team.

You will deliver exceptional care within a high-security forensic hospital, practicing within a Recovery framework and using sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and maintain a high standard of patient care. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide care that is consistent with the mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, social, forensic and cultural needs of the patient.

We’re seeking candidates who:

• have a thorough understanding of and demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery.
• have sound communication skills with the ability to engage constructively and share information on clinical matters with colleagues and team members to support the delivery of best practice and most appropriate service outcomes.

Mandatory qualifications and Registrations:

• Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA).
• This position is subject to a Police Check.
  
  

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Forensicare promotes the following values: responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect and leadership; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.

• Multiple RPN3 opportunities available
• Attractive rates and great salary packaging conditions
• Free 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 136 bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care.

About the role:

The Associate Nurse Unit Manager (ANUM) works closely with the Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) to lead and coordinate the nursing team. 

• You will deliver consumer based mental health nursing interventions as well as coordinate the resources and processes required to maintain a high standard of patient care through effective clinical leadership. 

• Practicing within a recovery framework you will use sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and maintain a high standard of patient care.  

• In collaboration with the NUM, you will support the team to
  • work within organisational policies and procedures and professional standards
  • promotes staff education and development
  • participates in the training and supervision of nursing staff and students
    
    
•  You will effectively manage resources on a shift and oversee the activities of the unit when the NUM is absent.

We are seeking applicants who have experience and knowledge in contemporary forensic mental health nursing practices and relevant legislation. You are passionate and patient-care orientated with well-developed communication skills and the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with staff and other key stakeholders.

This is an excellent opportunity for Registered Psychiatric Nurses with an interest in management and service development to step into a leadership position.  

Mandatory qualifications and Registrations:

• Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA).
• This position is subject to a Police Check.
  
  

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 Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Forensicare promotes the following values: responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect and leadership; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.

An exciting opportunity to join Forensicare's nursing team within our Prison Services!

• Multiple opportunities available, full time/part-time ongoing
• Based within our Prison Services (Melbourne Assessment Prison, Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Ravenhall and Port Phillip Prison)
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free onsite parking

Forensicare (the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) is the leading provider of forensic mental health services across Victoria. We deliver recovery-focused programs to consumers with serious mental illnesses across the Victorian justice system, mental health sector, and the community--from early intervention and prevention, to inpatient care, rehabilitation, and community transition support.

Our services are delivered through:

• Thomas Embling Hospital: a secure mental health hospital
• Prison mental health services throughout Victoria
• Community  Forensic Mental Health Service

We also work in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology through the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science to deliver a forensic mental health research program, specialist training, and ongoing professional education.

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.
• Consultant psychiatric services and Nurse Practitioner services to the larger state-managed prisons;
• Satellite psychology services at Barwon prison and Marngoneet Correctional Centre
• Forensicare deliver comprehensive forensic mental health (FMH) services at the Ravenhall Correctional Centre, as a sub-contractor to the GEO group.  The FMH services comprises of a bed based service for 75 prisoners and a large outpatients program.  Over 100 Forensicare clinical and corporate support staff are located at the new prison.
• Forensicare provide specialist mental health services at Port Phillip Prison as a sub-contractor to G4S Correctional Services, operating a 30-bed psychosocial rehabilitation unit and a mental health outpatients program.

About the role:

This position works with a multidisciplinary team to provide care and facilitate recovery through the use of evidence-based treatment approaches and participation in the delivery of therapeutic programs. 

Duties: 

• Delivery of high quality care coordination, 'At Risk' assessments and provision of individual and group programs
• Administer and monitor the effects of medical interventions
• Maintain comprehensive, patient focused, clinical documentation

Skills and experience:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)

Benefits: 

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

• Great salary packaging conditions & leave entitlements
• Bonus payment for relevant postgrad qualifications
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: Staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This position is subject to a Police Check. A Working With Children Check is a condition of employment to work at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

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.

• Multiple Casual RPN2 opportunities available
• Attractive rates and great salary packaging conditions
• Free 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 136 bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care.

About the role:
To meet the needs of our busy acute, sub-acute and rehabilitation services, we are seeking to build our Casual Bank resource. We are seeking passionate, flexible and patient-care orientated Registered Psychiatric Nurses with recent experience to join our team.

This exciting opportunity will see you work across various units as an active member of our Casual Bank. You will deliver exceptional care within a high-security forensic hospital, practicing within a Recovery framework and using sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and maintain a high standard of patient care.

Mandatory qualifications and Registrations:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent.
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA).
• This position is subject to a Police Check.
  
  

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

• Great salary packaging conditions (including casual staff)
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: staff health service, Critical Incident Stress Management and Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Forensicare promotes the following values: responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect and leadership; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.

• Based at Thomas Embling hospital

About the role:

All Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse Level 2 (PEN2) staff are advised of the opportunity to progress to the level of Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse Level 3 (PEN3).

This classification has been designed to recognise the development of advanced clinical knowledge and clinical practice at a higher level than normally expected at Level 2.

The opportunity to apply for this advanced position is open ended.

How to apply:

Potential applicants must read the Criteria information sheet attached as well as discuss the position with their Unit Manager before submitting an application. The Clinical Nurse Educator will convene a panel to consider applications.
Submit a CV and Cover Letter outlining your interest and suitability for the position.

An exciting opportunity to join Forensicare's nursing team within our Prison Services! 

• Multiple opportunities available, full time / part-time ongoing
• Based at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Ravenhall and Port Phillip Prison
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Free onsite parking

Forensicare (the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) is the leading provider of forensic mental health services across Victoria. We deliver recovery-focused programs to consumers with serious mental illnesses across the Victorian justice system, mental health sector, and the community--from early intervention and prevention, to inpatient care, rehabilitation, and community transition support.

Our services are delivered through:

• Thomas Embling Hospital: a secure mental health hospital
• Prison mental health services throughout Victoria
• Community  Forensic Mental Health Service

We also work in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology through the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science to deliver a forensic mental health research program, specialist training, and ongoing professional education.

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.
• Consultant psychiatric services and Nurse Practitioner services to the larger state-managed prisons;
• Satellite psychology services at Barwon prison and Marngoneet Correctional Centre
• Forensicare deliver comprehensive forensic mental health (FMH) services at the Ravenhall Correctional Centre, as a sub-contractor to the GEO group.  The FMH services comprises of a bed based service for 75 prisoners and a large outpatients program.  Over 100 Forensicare clinical and corporate support staff are located at the new prison.
• Forensicare provide specialist mental health services at Port Phillip Prison as a sub-contractor to G4S Correctional Services, operating a 30-bed psychosocial rehabilitation unit and a mental health outpatients program.

About the role:

The Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 2 delivers 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. 

Duties: 

• Use an evidence based practice approach to nursing.
• Contribute to therapeutic programs and participate in the delivery of individual and group programs to the patients on the unit.
• Facilitate the involvement of patients and carers in mental health recovery planning and delivery

Skills and experience:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent

• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA)

Benefits:

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

• Great salary packaging conditions & leave entitlements
• Bonus payment for relevant postgrad qualifications
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including: gym and pool access, 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. A Working With Children Check is a condition of employment to work at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

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.