21 Jul
Monash Health
Melbourne
Job Requisition ID: 4209
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
- Employment Type: Full Time Fixed Term
- Posting Date: 24 Apr 2025
**Monash Health is a great place to work**
Monash Health is Victoria's largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos**:monashhealth.org/careers**.
**Embark on a rewarding career and be part of a team where your dedication makes a difference in people's lives.**
**About the Role**
The Allied Health Mental Health Graduate Program commences at the end of June 2025 for 12-months, with 6 monthly rotations across a range of mental health areas including child, youth, adult and older adults in both community and inpatient settings. This will assist you in developing fundamental assessment, formulation and treatment skills. A dedicated Exercise Physiologist Clinical Educator and a learning package will assist the incumbent to develop both discipline specific and broader mental health knowledge and skills required for ongoing work in mental health care.
This position will require the incumbent to work in any clinical area at any Monash Health site as and when required.
**About You**
You are someone who has a genuine interest in beginning and developing your Allied Health career in Mental Health Care. You will be an early career clinician in Exercise Physiology with less than 2 years professional experience and the following skills:
- An authentic desire to improve the lives of people with mental health conditions.
- Keen and curious learner,
truly passionate about delivering a high standard of evidence-based care to all consumers, carers and families.
- A team player who seeks opportunities to collaborate and learn from consumers, carers and families, the lived experience and clinical workforce.
- Enthusiastic, compassionate and collaborative
- Dedicated to safe best practice and quality care
- Committed to delivering patient centred and family centred care
Requirements for this role include:
- Bachelor or Masters degree assessed as eligible for accreditation as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP) by Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA) (Courses with Full or Provisional Accreditation Status (essa.org.au))
- Meets eligibility criteria to be an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP)
**About Us**
The Mental Health Program serves consumers,
their carers and families across the south eastern metropolitan region with bed-based, community and rehabilitation programs. The service covers the age spectrum in its entirety, offering client centred programs for 0-25yo in Infant Child and Youth, and over 18 years for Adult and Older Adult Services. We also provide specialist services for eating disorders, treatment and support for expectant mothers and mothers with new born babies, a gender dysphoria clinic, dual disability services and neuro-developmental assessment team.
The Allied Health Mental Health Graduate Program is embedded in the Monash Health mental health workforce. It is designed to provide a supportive and comprehensive foundation experience in mental health, offering the right tools,
experiences and environments that will enable Graduates to confidently and competently contribute to Monash Health's clinical work and thrive in their graduate year.
**In Return**
In joining our Allied Health Mental Health Graduate Program, you will have access to the following benefits to grow your skills and career:
- Be part of a unique graduate cohort of clinicians of a range of disciplines including exercise physiologists, speech pathologists, social workers, occupational therapists, dietitians, music therapists and art therapists.
- Protected learning time each week, comprising of a combination of self-directed learning and facilitated learning activities.
Multiple supervision spaces, including fortnightly 1:1 clinical supervision and multi-disciplinary group and peer supervision.
- Mentoring/buddy support
- Professional Development led by multidisciplinary Monash Health Allied Health Mental Health Educators,
with links to organisations and resources including MHPOD and other additional opportunities relevant to your interests and needs.
- Opportunity for discovery days at different programs to explore an area of interest for your career.
As a Monash Health employee, you will also have access to a range of benefits including:
- Salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- Free vaccinations
- Private Health Insurance at discounted rates
- Access to health imaging services for you and your family
- + more
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Karen Salter on 0437 066 675.
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