Austin Health

Clinician

• Work collaboratively with the Program Manager, Nurse Practitioner, and Consultants supporting consumers with co-occurring mental health and substance use or addiction needs.
• Provide therapeutic and clinical supports.
• Support virtual appointments where this expedites and supports access to care without reducing clinical quality.
• Assist with primary and secondary addiction medicine assessments and capacity building across mental health, wellbeing, and AOD services.
• Assist with referral intake and coordinate consumer flow.
• Deliver education sessions to mental health and AOD teams.
• Support stakeholders in integrating mental health and AOD services.
• Establish linkages and liaison with community partnering services and stakeholders.
• Accept and triage referrals from regional partners via Turning Point and coordinate referrals appropriately.

Mental Health / AOD Clinician

Manager

• Coordinating patient assessments to provide home nursing services, facilitating video telehealth reviews, and completing complex discharge planning.
• Supporting escalation of the deteriorating patient - both through supporting visiting nurses remotely, and through the provision of on-call support and after-hours escalation.
• Formulating individual plans for patients to support their complex needs, aiming to provide care virtually where possible and supporting the patient and the treating team with a high level of confidence and expertise.

Virtual Care Case Manager

General

• Assess and manage acutely poisoned patients in the Austin Emergency Department.
• Manage patients in the ward and ICU environments who have been admitted under the care of the Clinical Toxicology Service.
• Support the Victorian Poisons Centre by managing remote consultations and following up ongoing cases.
• Participate in clinical case reviews, journal club, research activities and guideline writing.
• Contribute to quarterly state case review and M+M meetings.

Mental Health / AOD Clinician

Virtual Care Case Manager

Emergency Department Registrar, Toxicology