Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Position Classification: Health Clinician Level 3
Remuneration: Depending Upon Qualification
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ335500
 

This recruitment may be used to fill future positions via an eligibility list for permanent, full time, part time, temporary and casual positions.

CCLHD is seeking an experience and dedicated Mental Health Clinician within our Pathways to Community Living Initiative to support mental health patients into appropriate community-based living and services.

What you’ll be doing

The Pathways to Community Living Initiative (PCLI) is a coordinated state-wide approach to supporting people with enduring and serious mental illness who have been hospitalised in a mental health inpatient unit for more than 12 months to, wherever possible, re-establish their lives in the community. 
 
The senior clinician will work in partnership and as a consultant to mental health service managers and multidisciplinary mental health teams to provide a collaborative approach to development of models, pathways and access to clinical care through PCLI within the CCLHD geographic region.  The position will develop partnerships with community managed organisations, primary health care and other government and non-government organisations and will promote seamless integration and coordination of day to day work practices.
 
This role is suitable for the following:

• Clinical Nurse Specialist Gde 2
• Social Worker Lvl 3
• Occupational Therapist Lvl 3
• Psychologist
• Snr Psychologist

Where you’ll be working

Central Coast Local Health District is the largest employer and healthcare provider on the Central Coast. We are committed to providing our staff with a happy, healthy and rewarding workplace. We encourage and support professional development and community engagement. With two acute hospitals, two sub-acute hospitals and eight community health centres we provide the most comprehensive medical service in the region.

As an employer we offer our staff competitive benefits such as salary packaging, a monthly day off, paid maternity and parental leave, flexible work arrangements and professional development programs.

Our district covers a diverse landscape and demographic experience, from thriving urban centres to quiet beachside villages. The Central Coast can offer you a career unlike anywhere else as we straddle the line between metropolitan and rural, giving you a truly comprehensive and unique work experience that will serve you for your whole career.

Stepping Up Website 

The ‘Stepping Up’ online resource aims to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander job applicants understand how to apply for roles within NSW Health by clarifying the recruitment and onboarding process.   

For more information, please visit:  https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspx

Selection Criteria  

1. Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse, Psychologist or Occupational Therapist or eligibility for membership with AASW for Social Workers. Registered Nurse requires a relevant post registration qualification and at least 5 years’ experience working in the clinical area of the post graduate qualification
2. Demonstrated effective communication including verbal, written and interpersonal skills and information technology skills to provide complex specialty services in mental health practice
3. Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively both independently and as part of the multidisciplinary health care team
4. Demonstrated ability to provide complex care and develop and implement new model of care partnerships
5. Demonstrated clinical expertise and clinical leadership in the mental health care for people with complex issues.
6. Current knowledge and high level understanding of Mental Health Strategic Plan, Standards, Circulars and Policy Frameworks which impact on current mental health practice (including PCLI)
7. Demonstrated understanding of how the District is Caring for the Coast and how this role would contribute

Need more information?
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For role related queries or questions contact Niki Wardrope on 6977 4951 or via email: [email protected]

Applications Close: Monday, 26, September 2022 at 11.59pm

You are encouraged to complete applications on a week day where Technical Support is available Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm by phoning ROB Help Desk on 1300 679 367.