AddressRemuneration: $70,049.73 - $128,653.00 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 1
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ487824
Closing Date: Monday, 27th of May
About your new role:
As a Mental Health Clinician within the Peel Mental Health Service Extended Care Team, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of Mental Health Professionals, including medical, nursing, allied health, and peer work colleagues. Operating 7 days a week, our service provides assessment, support, and short-term care coordination for Adult Intake, Adult Acute Care in the community, and Mental Health presentations to the Tamworth Hospital Emergency Department.
Your role will involve utilising your previous experience working in a Mental Health setting with the ability to work across the lifespan with the Emergency Care component providing to assessments across the life span. In your role, you will support patients and their families and carers to ensure clinical interventions and service delivery processes are understood and enable patients to make informed decisions in relation to their health needs.
The Peel Mental Health Service Extended Care Team offers acute community-based care, including acute assessment through in reach at the Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital Emergency Department. Our service maintains a strong clinical governance to ensure the consistent delivery of exceptional Mental Health care to every patient. With a focus on driving change and innovation in ambulatory Mental Health services, our leadership team, comprising diverse multidisciplinary roles, offers various supports to enhance your role.
This position presents a remarkable opportunity for an engaged and enthusiastic Mental Health Clinician to truly impact the broader Peel community's well-being.
Where you will be working:
- Situated within the broader Peel Mental Health Service, our team operates as a modern and innovative service catering to Mental Health assessment and treatment needs across the Peel sector communities.
- Located at Peel MHS on the Tamworth Hospital site, this role may involve travel within approximately a 2.5-hour radius.
- Be a resource for the community and wider team regarding Mental Health practices
- Is savvy in developing working relationships within and outside the Mental Health team
- Have great people skills and be able to build effective relationships with clients
- Be committed to evidence-based practice, and innovation in healthcare
- Have a passion for rural health and making a difference to the community
Benefits:
- Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
- Proximity to shopping and other services
- ADO's each month (for full time employees)
- 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part time employees)
- Superannuation contributions
- Salary packaging options
- Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals
Additional Information:
- An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.
- Casual opportunities may be available for recommended applicants
- This position is full time; however, part time/job share arrangements may also be considered.
- To be eligible for permanent employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or a permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport. Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable local candidate is identified for the position; in this instance, you may only be offered employment in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
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