AddressEmployment Type: Full Time, Temporary 6 Month Contract with the possibility of extension
Classification:Health Professional Officer 2 (PN 29221)
Salary: $70,679 - $97,028 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Alexander Maconochie Centre
Section: Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services
Closing Date: 20 May 2024
What can we offer you:
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City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
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Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
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Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
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Flexible working conditions.
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11.5% Superannuation.
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Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
Forensic Mental Health Services is a unit of Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol & Drug Services, and is responsible for the delivery of high-quality Mental Health care to Mental Health clients who have a history of, are currently involved with, or are at high risk of becoming involved with, the criminal justice system.
FMHS provides Mental Health care across the lifespan and across a range of settings, including a centralised community health facility, youth, and adult custodial facilities, off campus community liaison, court settings, and secure inpatient units. The care provided is underpinned by the National Principles for Forensic Mental Health Services. The service aims to provide collaborative care guided by principles of Recovery and involving the consumer, their carers, and other key services.
FMHS is one united service with three distinguishable, yet integrated service components, as follows:
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Custodial Mental Health services (CMH) including:
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CMH – Child and Adolescent at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (CMH – CA)
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CMH – Adult at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (CMH – A)
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Forensic Inpatient Mental Health Services
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Dhulwa and Gawanggal Mental Health Units
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Forensic Community Mental Health Services including:
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FMHS Forensic Consultation and Intervention Service (FoCIS) including:
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Fixated and Lone Actor Grievance fuelled violence assessment centre (ACT FLAG)
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FMHS Mental Health Court Assessment and Liaison Service (MHCALS)
*Note: Psychologists working within Mental Health services are eligible for an additional allowance in addition to the base salary for Health Professionals. For full details of employment conditions and remuneration, please refer to the Health Professionals Enterprise Agreement:
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
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Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
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Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied Health Professionals.
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Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
To Apply:
Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the below 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 Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our communityOur 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 Lauren Hendry at (02) 5124 1*** or at
