Job Description
Posting Start Date: 17/04/2025
Req ID: 2981
Job Title: Senior Mental Health Clinician - Crisis Assessment Treatment Team (CATT)
Employment Status: Permanent Full Time
Job Location: Frankston

Job Description:

• Step into a Senior Position with a high performing community team
• Open to Registered Psychiatric Nurse, Social Work, Occupational Therapist and Clinical Psychologists
• Frankston, Mornington Peninsula & surrounding locations
• Classification: RPN GRADE 4 YEAR 1-3 (NP75-NP77),SNR CLIN OCC THER YR 1-4 (YB24-YB27), PSYCHOLOGIST GR3 YR1-4 (PL1-PL4), SNR CLIN S WKR GR3 YR1-4 (YC46-YC49)*

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE STAND FOR

Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.
In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values: Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative. We are One Peninsula Health.

Additional Requirements Peninsula Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We encourage applications from individuals from all cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We also provide a safe and supportive workplace for people with disabilities.

• Please refer to salary circular for VICTORIAN PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021-2024, MEDICAL SCIENTISTS, PHARMACISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS (VICTORIAN PUBLIC SECTOR) (SINGLE INTEREST EMPLOYERS) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021 – 2025 for salary range. Sub-grading will be based on years of experienc

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

The CATT Senior Mental Health Clinician provides and supports the team to provide mental health assessment and treatment to people who require urgent, short term or ongoing intensive community based mental health assessment, treatment and support.
The Senior Clinician rotates as the shift leader, this role is pivotal in running the shift and will be provide guidance and support to the team. The shift leader will also be the first point of escalation for the team. In addition, the CATT Senior Mental Health Clinician will play an active role in developing and supporting the orientation and learning of less experienced clinicians.
As a member of this multidisciplinary team your skills will also be utilised within the assessment, providing early discharge management, Mental Health Telephone Triage and Police Ambulance and Clinician Early Response (PACER).
For further informaiton, please see the: Position Description

THE ROLE CEASES ADVERTISING ON: 1 MAY 2025

Additional Requirements Peninsula Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We encourage applications from individuals from all cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We also provide a safe and supportive workplace for people with disabilities.

• Please refer to salary circular for VICTORIAN PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021-2024, MEDICAL SCIENTISTS, PHARMACISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS (VICTORIAN PUBLIC SECTOR) (SINGLE INTEREST EMPLOYERS) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021 – 2025 for salary range. Sub-grading will be based on years of experience

To find out more about our recruitment processes, compliance obligations and to prepare your application to join our team please visit:
https://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/careers/working-preparing-employment/ It is strongly recommended that this role is up to date with Covid-19 vaccination.