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Support
Services
A number of programs/units provide support for direct
clinical service provision.
Psychiatric Nursing
Psychiatric Nursing Professional
Development Website
Medical Program
The Medical Director of the Mental Health Program is the authorising
psychiatrist to Southern Health. The Medical Director ensures the safe
and best care of all clients managed by the Mental Health Program and
compliance with all requirements of the Mental Health Act. The
person is the clinical leader who sets, implements and monitors clinical
standards, in conjunction with other members of the Mental Health
Program executive group. The Medical Director is also a member of the
medical executive within Southern Health, advising the Chief Executive
on mental health issues and forming linkages across programs. The
Medical Director is also responsible for the medical workforce within
the Mental Health Program, including the coordination of recruitment,
training, accreditation, and staff retention.
Psychology
Consumer and Carer Relations
An experienced team under the leadership of the Director of Consumer and
Carer Relations works to ensure that consumers and carers using any of
our mental health services are afforded dignity, respect for their life
experience and are included in decisions about their health.
Our consumer consultants and carer consultants have themselves had
personal experience of the mental health system and provide strong
advocacy to ensure the views of consumers and carers are acted upon
throughout the Mental Health Program.
Research, Training and
Evaluation
Overview
Research is actively promoted within Southern Mental Health
services, in pursuit of improved clinical care and in line with ethical
and professional guidelines. Research activities are coordinated through
a Research Advisory Committee with representatives from the major active
research groups.
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Information on specific areas:
Information on several of the centres or research groups can be found
through the following links:
- Southern Synergy; The Southern Health Adult Psychiatry
Research, Training and Evaluation
- Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology
- Clinical Trials Research Group
- Centre for Psychological and Behavioural Medicine
Business Support
HR Client Relationship Manager
Service Development and Innovation
The Service Development and Innovation Program
supports clinical and operational services through the provision of
strategic development, systems development, monitoring and reporting,
flow and service improvement, and project management.
Quality, risk and data
performance
The Quality portfolio within the Mental Health
Program covers a diverse range of responsibilities relating to clinical
governance. The first is to provide support to staff across the program
in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of their
quality initiatives and to coordinate reporting within the program and
to the Southern Health Quality Unit and to coordinate the Mental Health
accreditation response. The second responsibility is report on risk
management within the program and thirdly to coordinate the collection,
interpretation and dissemination of data relating to the performance of
the service.
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