Michael Jones

• Provide clinical oversight and positive leadership for Head to Health Geelong, ensuring all staff within the team work together to achieve excellence in service delivery, within available resources
• Facilitate strong clinical governance culture within the team whilst supporting clinical governance framework of Neami, including monitoring and evaluation to ensure Neami's internal audits and external accreditation requirements are met
• Participate in regular collection of service data which can then be used to evaluate outcomes and assist with continuous improvement of service
• Ensure incident and critical incident reporting occurs in accordance with guidelines and take part in local on-call arrangements as required
• Foster a culture of learning and evaluation founded on routine monitoring and evaluation activity
• Generate knowledge through fostering research and evaluation activities
• Involve of people with relevant lived experience in the selection and operationalisation of measures of consumer outcome and experience
• Read and interpret analysed consumer data reports and translate learnings into practice

• Promote Neami's culture of practice, which is underpinned by the principles of Collaborative Recovery. Ensure that a consumer-centred approach is used in the provision of intake, assessment and referral services.
• Actively contribute as a team member to the delivery of integrated mental health service delivery with the aim to more effectively support consumers and promote the recovery model.
• Ensure incident and critical incident reporting occurs in accordance with guidelines.
• Coordinating and providing clinical mental health services
• Facilitate positive outcomes for consumers and carers through strong operational partnerships with public and private mental health services, primary health services, and other key stakeholders.
• Maintain strong working partnerships in particular with the public and private mental health services and primary health to ensure a collaborative approach to intake assessments and the effective operation of the STEPMI service.
• Develop and maintain strong working partnerships with local community services to facilitate collaborative delivery of services.
• Through service delivery and in collaboration with partners, staff and consumers identify service gaps and contribute to the development of appropriate solutions to address these gaps.
• Actively participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the Service.
• Contribute to the development of policies relevant to the Neami STEPMI program (internally and externally) in line with Neami aims and objectives and contract requirements.

Director role:

• Operational oversight and support of employed staff
• ·Operational oversight of mental health clinicians engaged as subcontractors ·
• Provision of Clinical supervision · Line management
• General Practice engagement and support · Training and education to General Practice – including GPs, allied health and administrative staff ·
• Intake and allocation policy and procedure development · Business mapping · Tender application writing

Therapist role:

• Delivery of evidence based, focused psychological therapy services to financially disadvantaged clients · Delivery of evidence based, focused psychological therapy services to clients referred at increased risk of suicide or self-harm · Outcome measures reporting ·
• GP feedback reporting

• Counselling/therapy for clients referred to Suicide Prevention program by G.P. practices as well as Mental Health Services
• Risk assessment
• Use of CBT, ACT skills training, focused psychological strategies
• Collaborative care, working closely with G.P. ·
• Education to relevant stakeholders ·
• Secondary consultation · Consultation/feedback reporting
• Development and delivery of suicide prevention training and education

• Role included the provision of:
• Psychiatric assessments of consumers that present to Emergency Department of Gold Coast Public Hospital(s)
• Education and secondary consultation to nursing and medical staff of the Hospital in the area of mental health
• Making recommendations and assisting with management plans of patients with mental health issues and with behavioural issues
• Promotion of appropriate follow up after discharge through participation in discharge planning and direct liaison with community services, G.P.'s and other service providers
• To provide specialist triage/intake through the community mental health clinic as well as apply primary nursing model to consumers accepted into the service

• Skills included the provision of:
• Psychiatric assessments of consumers that present to Emergency Department of Gold Coast Public Hospital(s)
• Education and secondary consultation to nursing and medical staff of the Hospital in the area of mental health
• Making recommendations and assisting with management plans of patients with mental health issues and with behavioural issues
• Promotion of appropriate follow up after discharge through participation in discharge planning and direct liaison with community services, G.P.'s and other service providers
• To provide specialist triage/intake through the community mental health clinic as well as apply primary nursing model to consumers accepted into the service

• Queensland Activities and skills included provision of:
• Psychiatric assessments of consumers that present to Emergency Department of Cairns Public Hospital
• Education and secondary consultation to nursing and medical staff of the Hospital in area of mental health
• Making recommendations and assisting with management plans of patients with mental health issues and with behavioural issues
• Promotion of appropriate follow up after discharge through participation in discharge planning and direct liaison with community services ,G.P.'s and other service providers
• To provide specialist triage/intake through the community mental health clinic as well as apply primary nursing model to consumers accepted into the service

• Community Assessment and Treatment Team, ) Queensland
• Activities and skills included the provision of:
• Psychiatric assessments to consumers of all age groups that present to Emergency Department of Cairns Public Hospital
• Education and secondary consultation to nursing and medical staff of the Hospital in mental health issues
• Making recommendations and assisting with management plans of patients with mental health issues and with behavioural issues
• Promotion of appropriate follow up after discharge through participation in discharge planning and direct liaison with community services ,G.P.'s and other service providers
• To provide specialist triage/intake through the community mental health clinic as well as apply primary nursing model to consumers accepted into the service

• Sole practitioner in rural community mental health setting (Great Southern Mental Health Service) Western Australia
• Role included the provision of:
• Psychiatric assessments of consumers that present to Emergency Department of area district hospitals as well as medical inpatients
• Education and secondary consultation to nursing and medical staff of the Hospital in mental health issues
• Promotion of appropriate follow up after assessment through participation and direct liaison with community services ,G.P.'s and other service providers
• Case management
• Intake/triage
• Development of consumer group

• North East Mobile Support and Treatment Team (Victoria)-‘Dual Diagnosis' Clinician
• Activities and skills included the provision of:
• Case management of consumers with complex needs (dual diagnosis)
• Provide consultation for affiliated non government organisation (residential rehabilitation service) staff
• Implementation and facilitation of weekly ‘Men's Group' at NGO service
• Active role in defining the parameters of the ‘dual diagnosis' position within Austin Health
• Weekly meetings with dual diagnosis specific consultation service (‘Nexus')
• Making recommendations and assisting with management plans of patients with mental health issues and with behavioural issues.

• Mental health inpatient services including: Adult Acute; Adolescent; Secure Extended Care
• Role included the provision of:
• Primary nursing model
• Medication administration
• Vena-puncture
• Mental State/Risk assessment
• Family support/education
• Discharge planning
• Supportive counselling