Reducing Restrictive Interventions Clinical Lead

Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.

• Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 5
• Permanent Mon-Fri, Full-time with flexible ADO
• Based at The Alfred
• Professional development opportunities and regular professional supervision

What's in it for you

• Fitness Passport (Subscription membership to numerous gyms across Melbourne)
• Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
• Portable long service leave from other public health services
• Salary Packaging 

About us

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health (AMAH) is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of AMAH is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

The newly developed Hospital and Emergency Services Department provides a range of clinical services delivered by two streams of care including Inpatient Services and Consultation Liaison and Emergency Psychiatry Services.

These combined streams aim to embed a trauma informed approach throughout the continuum of care which includes at each consumer’s entry to our services, at assessment, treatment and during hospital stays. This is line with the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health and part of our implementation of the requirements presented in the Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Act, 2022.

About the role

Restrictive interventions are distressing, traumatising and non-therapeutic, leaving people who experience them with long-term impacts. For this reason, Victoria has a legislative framework and oversight regime to regulate restrictive interventions and to ensure they are prevented or only ever used as a last resort after other options were tried or considered to be unsuitable.

In this role, you will be responsible for monitoring the use of restrictive interventions across Alfred Health and ensuring all staff both understand and are working towards the goal of reducing this practice. You will ensure staff adhere to the legislative requirements of the Mental Health and Well Being Act 2022 and provide education regarding effective strategies for managing complex behaviours.

You will work across all campus’ and but not limited to, with education & workforce, Quality and Safety, OVA, CL Psychiatry, ABI Unit, E&TC and ICU. A key part of this role is building capacity and capability to provide individualised care that meets patients needs and ensures the safety of staff by promoting alternative strategies to restrictive interventions. The ability to analyse data and prepare reports to peak committees is essential.  

About you

• Approved tertiary qualifications in mental health nursing – post graduate diploma equivalent as a minimum.
• Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia via AHPRA
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working in an acute setting post registration
• Experience working across a general health setting i.e. CL Psychiatry Nursing  is desirable
• Australian working rights and Vic torian Driver License
• Full Covid-19 and 2024 Influenza vaccination
• Current Working with Children Check and be willing to undergo a Background Check

Other benefits

• Great employment benefits as part of Alfred Health - Wellbeing initiatives, car parking (subject to availability), onsite gym, childcare services, access to salary packaging, novated leasing and discounted health insurance and banking
• Located close to public transport and cafes

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the APPLY button, include your resume and cover letter. 

For more information regarding the position, please contact Kathryn Henderson on ph: 0418 889 321

Applications Close: 11pm AEST, Wednesday 8th May 2024

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.  Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

In accordance with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all Alfred Health employees are required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption. Furthermore, in accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption. 

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au