AddressSenior Clinician- Health Professional Level 3 - Forensic
Full-time Permanent
Closes: 28 February 2024
Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 plus superannuation
Position No: 25508 - 02G78
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 13 February 2024
Contact Officer: Lauren Hendry on Lauren.J.Hendry@act.gov.au or (02)51241813
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).
About the Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the community-based facet of Forensic Mental Health Services (FMHS). FMHS is a unit of Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol & Drug Services, which 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.
Under minimal direction of the Clinical Lead, Community Forensic Mental Health, as a Senior Allied Health Clinician in the community-based Forensic Mental Health teams - FoCIS or MHCALS - you will provide high-level mental health assessments for external stakeholders including community and inpatient mental health services (FoCIS) or the ACAT and ACT Law Courts (MHCALS). You will be required to prepare professional clinical reports and undertake forensic risk consultations with mental health clients including structured risk assessments for offending behaviours, and/or provide brief professional reports on general mental health issues to the ACAT and the ACT Law Courts. As part of a collaborative team of psychologists, social workers, nurses, and psychiatrists, you will also provide consultation and liaison to community and inpatient mental health services regarding the treatment and management of high-risk individuals and people at various stages in the legal process. You will have the opportunity to provide targeted therapeutic interventions for problem behaviours appropriate to your training and skills, and will facilitate referral and follow-up where appropriate.
As a Senior Clinician in FMHS you will also be required to initiate and participate in quality improvement and service development activities, provide clinical supervision to other Health Professionals, and engage professionally and sensitively with a range of external stakeholders.
Senior Clinicians working within FMHS are supported via access to specialist training and specialist clinical supervision, a collaborative and multidisciplinary team environment, and continuing professional development opportunities appropriate to area of service provision.
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.
- 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.
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.
