AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Classification: Health Professional Level 2 (PN 63196)
Salary: $70,679 - $97,028 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Health Services
Section: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Closing Date: 18 June 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.
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
Mental Health, Justice Health, Alcohol & Drug Services (MHJHADS) provide Health Services directly and through partnerships with community organisations. The services provided a range from prevention and treatment to recovery, maintenance, and harm minimisation. Consumer and carer participation is encouraged in all aspects of service planning and delivery. The Division works in partnership with consumers, carers and 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 peoples' homes.
These services include:
- Adult Community & Older Persons Mental Health Services
- Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services
- Alcohol & Drug Services (ADS)
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Justice Health Services (JHS)
CAMHS provides assessment and treatment for young people up to the age of 18 years who are experiencing moderate to severe Mental Health issues. CAMHS also provides high quality tertiary Mental Health care for young people aged 14-25 experiencing first onset psychosis.
The CAMHS Duty Officers are situated within the CAMHS community teams at Belconnen Community Health Centre and Cosmopolitan Building, Bowes St Phillip. The CAMHS Duty Officers provide triage, phone assessment, including crisis response, and face-to-face multidisciplinary assessments within a recovery framework to children and Young People up to the age of 18 and their families.
There may be future scope to provide single session interventions for children and young people with Mental Health issues and their families, facilitate group work, in-reach into Bimberi Youth Justice Centre, police stations, and support Police, Ambulance, Clinician Early Response (PACER) where needed to complete assessments of young people. As a HP2 clinician you will provide support to HP1 clinicians.
CAMHS is seeking a dynamic and experienced Health Professional Level 2 to fulfill the requirements of the Duty Officer role. Under the direction of a Team Manager / Senior Clinician, the HP2 will provide triage, Mental Health assessment, including risk assessments and psychoeducation as well as referral management.
The role will also require the team member to undertake professional development and supervision, participate in quality initiatives and contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes.
Psychologists employed by MHJHADS may be eligible for the Mental Health Psychologist allowance under the provisions of the ACT Public Sector Health Professional Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021. Refer to Annex C of the Agreement or speak to the Contact Officer listed to find out if you could be eligible.
For more information regarding the position click here for the Position Description.
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.
- Obtain a Compliance Certificate from OMU (Occupational Medicine Unit) relating to assessment, screening & vaccination processes against specified infectious disease.
- Comply with ACT Health credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements.
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.
Please note appointment may be based on written application and referee reports only.
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 Hayley Mckenna at (02) 5124 1148.
