Yea & District Memorial Hospital (YDMH) is seeking the following:
Lower Hume Primary Mental Health
Mental Health Counsellor
Fixed Term to 30/06/2027
Mansfield 0.2 FTE
Kilmore 0.6 FTE
Allied Health Professionals (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) enterprise Agreement 2021-2026
or
Medical Scientists, Pharmacists and Psychologists (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2021-2025
Classification: Based on Experience
The Mental Health Counsellor roles are responsible for delivering evidence‑based mental health intake, assessment, treatment, and consultation across the Lower Hume region. Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team, the role provides high quality clinical practice, is a site‑based sole clinician, and contributes to service development, clinical governance, and workforce capacity building.
The role supports individuals across the lifespan with mild, moderate, and severe mental health needs within a stepped care framework, while strengthening service integration and access in rural communities.
The Lower Hume Primary Mental Health Program (LHPMH) delivers locally based, integrated mental health services across the Shires of Mitchell, Murrindindi and Mansfield. The program is funded by Murray PHN, with Yea and District Memorial Hospital (YDMH) as fund holder and provider of clinical governance.
Partner organisations include:
· Yea and District Memorial Hospital
· Alexandra District Health
· Seymour Health
· Northern Health – Kilmore District Hospital
· Goulburn Valley Health
· Mansfield District Hospital
At YDMH, we prioritise workforce stability and meaningful work-life balance for our staff. We're proud to offer an environment that fosters job security and empowers our staff to thrive.
YDMH offers salary packaging, remuneration, education and wellbeing support and annual leave benefits as a Victorian Public Sector Employee in a highly collaborative team environment.
Yea & District Memorial Hospital is an equal opportunity employer who respects and is inclusive of our community’s diversity including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Lesbian, Gay, Transsexual, Bisexual and Intersex, varying age groups, cultural backgrounds and abilities.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
