Team Leader Mental Health Services (Maternity Backfill Position)
Locations: Mildura
Tenure: Full Time - Fixed Term Contact
Salary: $101,009 - $122,899
Applications Close: This position will remain opened until filled
Position Description: Team Leader Mental Health Services (Maternity Backfill Position)
This is a 12 month Fixed Term Maternity Backfill position
To provide leadership, supervision and direction to a team of staff delivering Community Mental Health Services and be responsible for operational and financial management and provision of safe, quality and cost-effective mental health care consistent with contemporary standards, policies and best practices.
This position encompasses different streams of contract funding support:
Early Intervention Psychosocial Support Response (EIPSR)
The EIPSR is a Victorian State Government funded support program, administered through Mildura Base Public Hospital.
The EIPSR program is a psychosocial support model targeted to adult clients of the clinical mental health service system living with a severe mental illness and associated psychiatric disability who are:
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Not eligible for the NDIS because they do not have a significant, permanent functional impairment(s) associated with their mental health condition; or
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Are eligible for the NDIS and are waiting for an access decision and their NDIS plan to begin.
The service model provides short to medium term, specialist psychosocial support to help eligible client to:
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Build their capacity to better manage their mental illness;
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Develop practical life skills for independent living and social connectedness;
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Achieve health, functional lives; and
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If eligible transition to the NDIS.
The Mental Health Pathways Program
The objective of the Mental Health Pathways Program is to prevent people exiting psychiatric facilities into homelessness through the provision of housing and brokerage support.
The program seeks to provide appropriate support to people who are identified as being homeless or at risk of homelessness upon exit from a bed-based psychiatric facility. This includes individuals residing in long-term housing (public housing, private rental) which may be at risk of deteriorating or breaking down while receiving treatment in a psychiatric facility.
Earn and Learn Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Program
The Earn & Learn Traineeship is an initiative under Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Strategy, which outlines a strategic approach to building a diverse, skilled, and multidisciplinary workforce for the State's reformed mental health system. The program offers 50 trainee positions across eight organisations statewide, with Mallee Family Care eligible for two of these roles. This program creates opportunities for individuals to have exposure to the mental health sector whilst undertaking a Certificate IV in Mental Health.
Qualifications and Experience:
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The person employed as a Team Leader will be expected to have previous relevant experience in Leadership and Management of a service/program and will be required to hold an accredited qualification relevant to the position at Degree Level or above in Social Work, Psychology or other suitable related discipline.
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Leadership experience in the mental health sector will be highly regarded.
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A current driver’s licence and a willingness to travel and preparedness to be accommodated overnight when required.
For you to be considered for this role, all applications must be submitted with a Cover Letter, Resume and the Key Selection Criteria addressed, which can be found in the position description.
For more information regarding this position please contact Maree Fullgrabe – Human Resource Manager on 5023 5966