Older Persons Mental Health Clinician
Core
Provide specialist mental health assessment, treatment, and care coordination for older people with complex clinical needs, including dementia and BPSD, within community and aged care settings.
Role type
Senior IC mental health clinician (dual classification: RN/M2C or AHP2)
Builds
Recovery-oriented, person-centred care plans and multidisciplinary collaboration
Domain
Healthcare + Mental Health + Geriatrics
Required skills
Clinical assessment, treatment planning, care coordination, evidence-based practice, clinical judgement, multidisciplinary collaboration, dementia care management, BPSD management
Preferred skills
Experience in aged care settings, stakeholder partnership building, service development, quality improvement initiatives
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Provide specialist mental health assessment, treatment and care coordination for older people with complex clinical needs; Build effective partnerships with consumers, carers and key stakeholders to support safe, high-quality and person-centred care; Use sound clinical judgement and evidence-based practice to deliver positive outcomes across a range of community and aged care settings; Support excellence in service delivery by contributing to multidisciplinary collaboration, workforce development and continuous quality improvement initiatives
Seniority
Experienced clinician, hands-on IC