Clinical Manager- Health Professional Officer 3

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Classification: Health Professional Level 3 (PN 21788)
Salary: $99,819 - $110,398 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Health Services
Section: Adult Community Mental Health Services
Closing Date: 20 March 2024

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.
• 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 and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to people via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people's homes. 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)

  Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) includes:

  Intake services:
  

• Access Mental Health Service
  
• Home Assessment & Acute Response Team (HAART)

  Community Recovery Services:
  

• Gungahlin
  
• Belconnen
  
• City
  
• Woden
  
• Tuggeranong

  Community Specialty Services:
  

• Assertive Community Outreach Service (ACOS)
  
• Older Persons Community Mental Health Team
  
• Mental Health Link
  
• Therapies
  
• Neuropsychology

  This position is primarily located within the Community Recovery Services (CRS) but staff may be required to work across all of Adult Community Mental Health Services to meet operational demands. CRS are a multi-disciplinary team of Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Psychiatry Registrars and Consultant Psychiatrists, and Administration Service Officers.

  CRS provide a recovery-focused, strengths-based approach to clinical case management to improve wellbeing and enhance functioning in the community for adults who:

  · Are experiencing complex mental illness/disorder or psychological distress which is associated with significant functional impairment and/or significant risks

  · May be subject to a Psychiatric Treatment Order under the Mental Health Act 2015

  · Have multidisciplinary treatment needs that cannot be met elsewhere in the community or less intensive service

  · Require regular service contact over a medium to longer-term episode of care.

  The successful applicant will be responsible for a caseload of clients with support from an allocated psychiatrist and the multidisciplinary team they work in as well as high quality governance structures/supports. The successful applicant will deliver face to face care and treatment to clients over a sustained period to enable the person to improve in social and other areas of functioning, require less hospital admissions and engage more actively in treatment. The participation of the people who use the service, including families and carers, is encouraged in all aspects of a person's care and you will work in partnership with a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for clients.

  At this level, the successful applicant will provide high quality interventions and achieve sound outcomes for people under limited supervision, contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes, undertake professional development and professional supervision including the provision of supervision to staff at level HP1 & HP2, Allied Health Assistants and students, and participate in quality initiatives and strategic planning.

  Selection may be appointed using the written application alone.

  For more information regarding the position duties

  Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
  

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
• Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011is required.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied Health Professionals.

To Apply:

Please submit a copy of your CV along with a cover letter or 2 x page pitch responding to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the

CHS website

.

Our Vision

: creating exceptional health care together

OurRole

: to be a health service that is trusted by our community

Our Values

: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Rebecca Hall at 02-5124 4***