AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Classification: Health Professional Level 2 (PN 31825)
Salary: $70,679 - $97,028 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Gungahlin Community Health Centre
Section: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Closing Date: 14 May 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.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)
About the Role:
CAMHS provides assessment and treatment for children and young people up to the age of 18 years who are experiencing moderate to severe Mental Health issues and Mental Health care for young people aged 14-25 experiencing first onset psychosis. CAMHS also provides lifespan services, including Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services, the Eating Disorder Program and Mental Health Service for People with Intellectual Disability (MHS-ID).
The CAMHS community teams are made up of multidisciplinary Mental Health professionals who provide assessment treatment and clinical management within a recovery framework.
Mental Health Service for People with Intellectual Disability (MHS-ID) is a specialist team within MHJHADS that provides comprehensive assessment and psychiatric services to consumers with an intellectual disability and a mental illness aged 17 years and over. The team provides collaborative care involving the person, their families/carers and community support services. Under the direction of the Team Manager, the HPO2 will provide expertise in consultation, liaison, support, education and training to agencies, carers and families. 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.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
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 Hayley McKenna at 02-5124 1***.
