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St.
Vincent's Mental Health Service &
St. George’s Aged Psychiatry Service
St.
Vincent's Mental Health Service and St. George’s Aged Psychiatry Service
provide clinical services to adult and aged residents of the Cities of Yarra and
Boroondara and part of Northcote, in the inner east area of Melbourne.
Service
Administration:
Tel
9288 4145
Fax
9288 4802
Email: mentalhealth@svhm.org.au
Information
about other mental health services in Victoria is found at the Department of
Human Services website www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth
The
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Mental Health
and Special Programs Branch website is www.health.gov.au/hsdd/mentalhe
Training
The
Service provides teaching and clinical affiliations for undergraduate and
postgraduate students in medicine, nursing, social work, occupational therapy
and psychology.
The
teaching, training and research activities of the St. Vincent’s Hospital, and
University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry has resulted in the SVMHS
being designated as a site for collaboration in the Australian Multi-site WHO
Collaborating Centre in Research and Training in Mental Health.
St.
Vincent’s Mental Health Service (SVMHS) in collaboration with
The University of Melbourne is offering tailored clinical training
placements (The Postgraduate Overseas Specialist Training or
POST Program)
for psychiatrists, nurses and allied health professionals from
the Asia-Pacific region.
Service
Development and collaboration
The
SVMHS actively promotes collaborative liaison with local Psychiatric Disability
Rehabilitation and Support Service (PDRS), local Divisions of General Practice,
Primary Care Partnerships, local government, private psychiatrists and other
area Mental Health services.
It
promotes change and service improvement through its Strategic Plan and Quality
Improvement activities.
Awards
The
service has been a finalist for awards from the Mental
Health Services Conference (Australia and New Zealand) (TheMHS).
In
1998 St. Vincent's Mental Health Service received the Gold Medal Award for
“Comprehensive Catchment Area Service”, and in 2001 the Victorian
Dual Disability service received a Gold Medal in the Specialist Service
category.
In
2002, the General Practice Shared Care Program won a TheMHS bronze award in the
Shared Care category.
Career
Opportunities
If you are interested in
working at St. Vincent's Mental Health Service or St. George’s Aged Psychiatry
Service, please follow this link to the St.
Vincent’s Health careers site
where you will find current vacancies, job descriptions and contact details.
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