Clinical Psychologist - Adult Gender Service

Employment Type: Part-Time (29.24 hours per week), Permanent

Classification: Health Professional Officer Level 3 (PN 65919)

Classification: Health Professional Officer Level 4 (PN 62808) - depending on qualifications and experience

Salary: $99,819 - $123,710 (Plus 11.5% Super)

Location: Canberra Hospital, Garran - Canberra Sexual Health Centre

Section: Adult Gender Service

Closing Date: 5 May 2024

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• 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.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

Canberra Sexual Health Centre (CSHC) is based at the Canberra Hospital campus in Garran. CSHC provides sexual health and HIV care and is home to the Adult Gender Service (AGS) providing gender care to adults and adolescents aged 16 and over. The AGS has close links with the Paediatric Gender Service. (PGS).

Together, AGS and PGS comprise the CHS Gender Service, providing interdisciplinary support for children, young people, adults and their families with gender concerns or gender dysphoria in the ACT and surrounding regions. The Gender Service aims to improve physical and mental health and quality of life outcomes for trans-gender diverse (TGD) people of all ages by providing care in which individuals feel safe, supported, and listened to throughout their gender identity experience.

Clinical care is delivered by highly trained health workers using a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach embracing family and peer support, reducing stigma and discrimination, and optimising physical and mental health outcomes.

This Clinical Psychologist position will deliver high level clinical services as part of the AGS and CSHC. This new role will work with a multidisciplinary team to assess, diagnose, and manage the mental wellbeing of adolescents >= 16 years and adults seeking gender care. The Clinical Psychologist will also contribute to the care of other patients with sexual health conditions that affect their mental wellbeing.

The position will involve supporting patient intake, neurocognitive assessments, counselling, providing reports and liaison with peer support agencies, specialist networks and ACT Government bodies.

The Allied Health Care Provider will report to the Director of Allied Health supported by the Director of the Canberra Sexual Health Centre both based in the Division of Medicine.

Please note there is one position available, however, it will be filled at either the Health Professional Officer 3 or 4 level depending on qualifications and experience.

For more information regarding the position duties click on the relevant link below:

Health Professional Level 3

Health Professional Level 4

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

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination procedure.
• 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 2x page response to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description. Only applications submitted online via the E-Recruitment system will be accepted.

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 Fabiola Martin at (02) 5124 2***.