Perinatal And Infant Mental Health Clinician | Full-Time Temporary

Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 plus superannuation
Position No: 33288 - 02HAT
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 19 April 2024
Contact Officer: Bridget Dillon on **************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 3***

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

About the Role:

The Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Consultation Service (PIMHCS) is a community based, multidisciplinary service for women with moderate to severe Mental Health problems who are planning pregnancy, are pregnant, and in the first year after birth. We aim to provide specialist perinatal consultation, Mental Health assessment and advice to clients and to referring services.

The role will require the team member to provide triage, assessment and clinical interventions to perinatal women and their families, experiencing Mental Health with complex psychosocial issues.

Health Professional Officers within the CAMHS are expected to be actively involved in professional development and supervision, participate in quality initiatives and contribute to the multidisciplinary team. Additionally, the role is required to be available to work within all program areas of CAMHS, as service needs arise.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

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 policy.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

Notes: This is a temporary position available for 11.5 months with possibility of extension.

An Order of Merit may be used to fill future identical full time and part time temporary vacancies across CAMHS within a 12-month period. Selection may be based on written application and referee reports only. This position is part-time at (29.4) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

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 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.

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This is a temporary position available for 11.5 months with possibility of extension.

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