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Area Mental Health Services

Introduction

The Regional Mental Health Workforce Incentives aim to:

Support the attraction, recruitment, and retention of new workers to priority positions across state funded mental health and alcohol and other drug services in rural and regional Victoria
Support individuals and their dependents to move, settle and integrate into rural and regional Victorian communities.

The incentives include the following elements:

Regional mental health workforce incentive grants that will encourage and support mental health workers to relocate, settle and remain in rural and regional areas.
Navigator roles that will ensure all new workers are well supported prior to employment, during relocation, settlement and integration into local communities.
Support for the promotion of jobs and the broader incentives to attract workers with the appropriate skills from metropolitan areas, interstate, and/or overseas to rural and regional services across Victoria.

The incentives are supported by a Victorian Government investment of $13.7m over four years.

Background

The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System highlighted ongoing workforce challenges experienced by rural and regional areas identifying that these areas struggle to attract and retain mental health workforce across all disciplines.
The Royal Commission recommended the Victorian Government address mental health and wellbeing workforce supply needs in rural and regional areas and establish an incentive scheme to:

a) attract mental health and wellbeing workers to rural and regional mental health and wellbeing services

b) retain mental health and wellbeing workers in such services.

Workforce relocation and incentive grants

The Victorian Government has allocated funds to support rural and regional Area Menta Health Services to provide incentives to attract workers to roles that are difficult to fill.

Service eligibility

Workers being recruited to AMHS across rural and regional Victoria will be eligible to access the workforce relocation and incentive grants. For services to qualify they must be based in MMM2 – MMM6, under the Modified Monash Model.
The following AMHS are in scope:

Albury Wodonga Health
Ballarat Health Services
Barwon Health – where role in based in MMM2 – MMM6
Bendigo Health
Goulburn Valley Health
La Trobe Regional Hospital
Mildura Base Hospital
South West Healthcare

Grant guidelines

For more information and to see guidelines for Area Mental Health Services, click here.

Please ensure you read the program guidelines available from here prior to completing this form.

If you are an Area Mental Health Service and want to apply for a Relocation and Retention Incentive please complete the application form below:

Organisational details

Organisation name(Required)

Organisation address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Key contact person(Required)

First Name Last Name

Contact person's title(Required)

Contact person's email address(Required)

Contact person's phone number(Required)

Hiring Manager name(Required)

First Name Last Name

Hiring Manager email(Required)

Program Director name(Required)

First Name Last Name

Program Director email(Required)

Grant recipients’ details

Name

First Name Last Name

Address

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Phone

Is receipient coming from overseas?

Where have they migrated from?(Required)

Has the recipient accessed to the travel allowance directly though Department of Health?

State item(s) claimed and the amount(Required)

Grant application details

Position Description (PD)

Max. file size: 128 MB.

Attache position description if available

Title(Required)

Classification(Required)

Brief summary of role(Required)

Describe recruitment difficulties to date, including length of unfilled vacancy (attach evidence if appropriate)

300 words max

Describe how incitive grant will be support recruitment and retention(Required)

300 words max

Grant funding requested

Amount

Relocation costs

Note: e.g., removalist fees

Travel costs associated with the cost of relocation only

Note: Flights must be economy and most direct route

Initial rental costs

Note: e.g., bond

Costs associated with setting up home in a new location

Note: e.g., purchase of white goods, furniture, utilities connection fees

Annual travel costs to home country

School fees and childcare costs

Accommodation costs

Note: e.g. home buying and rental costs

Vehicle purchasing or leasing costs

Total requested

Note: This field will be calculated automatically based on the amount fields above.

ATTACHEMENTS – if applicable

Candidate's CV/Resume

Max. file size: 128 MB.

Employment contract or letter of offer

Max. file size: 128 MB.

How did you hear about us?(Required)

RWAV Communications

I would like to receive relevant communication from RWAV (newsletters, webinars, surveys, etc.)

Looking for a Mental Health role in rural Victoria? visit our Mental Health vacancies by clicking the button below.

You can also find more information about the Mental Health vacancies through a series of questions and answers below which might be helpful.

Who is responsible for completing and submitting the grant application?

The key contact(s) at the Area Mental Health Service are responsible for completing and submitting the application form.

What information will be required to complete the application from?

The following information will be asked:

Grant recipient details (where relevant)
Role details, including classification and outline
Recruitment difficulties experienced to date
How incentive grant will support recruitment and retention
The items that will be funded and their cost.

What attachments will be required when applying for the grant?

The following will be required where relevant:

Copy of the position description
Candidate’s resume
Employment contract or letter of offer.

How much can I receive from the relocation and incentive grants?

Grants will have a nominal value of up to $20,000 (GST incl.) per employee however services will negotiate the exact value and details of the package with eligible employee.

What will be required to claim the grant?

In accordance with public funding guidelines, AMHS or grant recipient will need to attach, original receipts must accompany all funding claims.

Can the relocation be within rural and regional Victoria or is it just for metro to rural/regional?

People relocating within rural and regional Victoria can be eligible, however this will generally be in instances where the MMM number increases. See:https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/health-workforce-locator/health-workforce-locator to determine MMM for a particular location.

Can a recipient of the international travel allowance of up to $13,000 through the Department of Health also access the relocation and incentive grants?

Yes – services recruiting international candidates should first claim the international travel allowance. See https://www.health.vic.gov.au/medical-workforce-in-victoria/international-recruitment Services can then make a claim for any additional costs up to a total of $20,000 through the Regional MH Workforce Incentives.

Where to I find more information about the Regional Mental Health Workforce Incentives including roles that are attracting relocation and incentive grants?

For more information about the incentives and current vacancies visit www.rwav.com.au/

Who can I contact for more information about grants?

If you can’t find what you are looking for, please get in touch with us now or phone 03 93497800 (Option 1).

This initiative is supported by the Victorian State Government.