What can we offer you:
- City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates.
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
Mental Health, Justice Health, Alcohol and Drug Services provides health services directly and through partnerships with community organisations. The services provided range from prevention and treatment to recovery and maintenance and harm minimisation. The participation of the people who use the service, including families and carers, is encouraged in all aspects of service planning and delivery. The Division works in partnership with a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for clients.
The Division delivers services at a number of locations, including hospital inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, detention centres, other community settings including people’s home.
These services include:
- Adult Acute Mental Health Services
- Adult Community Mental Health Services
- Alcohol & Drug Services
- Justice Health Services
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Rehabilitation and Specialty Mental Health Services
The Adult Acute Mental Health Services (AAMHS) covers the Adult Mental Health Unit (AMHU) which is an acute 40 bed inpatient unit for people experiencing moderate to severe mental illness, ward 12 B, a 10 bed low dependency unit for people suffering moderate mental illness, and Mental Health Short Stay Unit (MHSSU) which is a low dependency 6 bed inpatient unit in the Emergency Department for people requiring extended mental health assessment and/or treatment initiation.
AAMHS is a contemporary evidence-based service providing high quality mental health care, guided by the principles of Recovery. The service aims to provide collaborative care involving the person, their carers and other key community services.
At this level it is expected that you will provide high quality interventions and achieve sound outcomes for people under routine supervision. It is also an expectation that you will contribute your expertise to the multidisciplinary team, provide supervision to staff to staff at level HP1, Allied Health Assistants and students and support the Allied Health Manager in change processes. You will be required to undertake quality initiatives to promote service delivery at a standard of best practice.
The position will report operationally to the Allied Health Manager of AAMHS. Professional governance of this position will come from the Discipline Principal Social work (MHJHADS)
This is a fulltime position within Adult Mental Health Unit working Monday to Friday
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- Obtain a compliance certificate from OMU (occupational medicine unit) relating to assessment, screening & vaccination processes against specific infectious diseases.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for the Allied Health professional.
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of six months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.
For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”