Hospital Post Suicide Engagement Service (HOPE)

The Royal Melbourne Hospital - Orygen Specialist Program

• Deliver youth specific family inclusive practice interventions as part of the Hospital Post Suicide Engagement service (HOPE)
• Ongoing position, one day per week, preferably Wednesdays
• Business hours, based in central Parkville location with occasional travel between different sites

Orygen Specialist Program (OSP), a program of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, provides specialist mental health services for young people aged 12 to 25 and focuses on providing early intervention to young people with severe and complex mental illness. OSP also works alongside Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, which operates four primary mental health care headspace services in the catchment area. OSP is going though a period of transition from Royal Melbourne Hospital to form the new legal entity of Parkville Wellbeing Youth Mental Health Services. The Hospital Post Suicide Engagement service (HOPE) is an aftercare service initiative that has been codesigned with lived experience associates with the aims to provide targeted wrap around supports to young people aged 12 to 25 years who have presented to an emergency department due to an acute onset of deliberate self-harm, suicidal thoughts and/or suicide attempt(s). HOPE service provides responsive clinical, lived experience and wellbeing psychosocial supports to eligible young people and their support network for a 3-month period.

Benefits of working in Orygen as a part of The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Salary packaging options
• Discounted gyms and health centre access with Fitness Passport
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities
• We pride ourselves on our Speaking UP for Safety Culture and our values - People First, Lead with Kindness and Excellence together

Your new role

• Deliver HOPE Family Inclusive Practice interventions
• Support, upskill and educate clinicians in Family work interventions
• Specialise in brief family work interventions

About you

• This is a multidisciplinary role and is open to Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Psychologists
• Postgraduate qualifications in family therapy, mediation or equivalent
• Experience delivering family work interventions in a youth mental health setting
• Abilitity to contribute to service improvement initiatives
• Passionate about early intervention in youth mental health care

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