AddressClassification:Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 (up to $110,398 on achieving a personal upgrade) plus superannuation
Position No: 40170, several-02HSL
Directorate: ACT Health
Advertised (Gazettal date): 23 May 2024
Contact Officer: Bronwyn Thomson on ***************@act.gov.au. or (02) 5124 0***
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:
Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services provides support to youth and adults via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes.
We partner with our health care consumers, their family, carers, government, and community organisations to ensure that they receive the best possible care during their treatment and recovery.
All care that we provide is driven by our values of being kind, reliable, respectful, and progressive. We’re also guided by contemporary Mental Health and human rights legislation which means we operate within a framework that ensures the rights and dignity of people are promoted and protected.
The Adult Mental Health Day Service (AMHDS) is a specialist team within MHJHADS that delivers effective evidence-based and recovery-focused interventions to people living in the community to help enhance their quality of life and/or improve their functional status. The AMHDS offers a variety of programs, including several group-based interventions and other specialist services that target people who are living in the community and who are experiencing moderate to severe Mental Health conditions. The team aims to provide collaborative care involving the person, their families/carers and community support services.
The Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (AMHRU) is an inpatient rehabilitation unit whose aim is to attain and maximise independence through bio-psychosocial rehabilitation in all aspects of daily living for graduated community re-integration. Service delivery is underpinned by evidence based Mental Health care, the principles of Recovery and the provision of collaborative care involving the person, their careers, and other key stakeholders.
As a Senior Health Professional, you will use your expertise in the theoretical and practical application of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions to promote recovery in individuals with moderate to severe mental illness in both an outpatient and in-patient setting. You will deliver discipline-specific evidence-based individual and group interventions to promote wellbeing and meaningful occupation, as well as use your skills and knowledge in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to provide leadership and delivery of the DBT program, including individual therapy and DBT skills group.
The AMHDS and AMHRU are located at the University of Canberra Hospital.
Two positions are available. One position is permanent part-time, 22.08 hours/week. The other position is a temporary full-time position for 9 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency. Part-time hours will be considered for the right applicant.
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.
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Career interest categories:Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
