September 13, 2024

ACT Health

Canberra

FULL TIME

Clinical Manager - ACMHS

Description

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Classification: Health Professional Level 1 (PN 14197)
Salary: $76,027 - $92,596 (Plus 11.5% Super)
Location: Woden Community Health Centre
Section: Adult Community Mental Health Services
Closing Date: 27 September 2024

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.

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

About the Role:

Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to people via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes. These services include:

Adult Acute Mental Health Services

Adult Community Mental Health Services

Alcohol & Drug Services

Justice Health Services

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) includes:

Intake services:

Access Mental Health Service

Home Assessment & Acute Response Team (HAART)

Community Recovery Services:

Gungahlin

Belconnen

City

Woden

Tuggerangong

Community Specialty Services:

Assertive Community Outreach Service (ACOS)

Older Persons Community Mental Health Team

Mental Health Link

Therapies

Neuropsychology

This position is primarily located within the Community Recovery Services (CRS) but staff may be required to work across all of Adult Community Mental Health Services to meet operational demands. CRS are a multi-disciplinary team of Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Psychiatry Registrars and Consultant Psychiatrists, and Administration Service Officers.

CRS provide a recovery-focused, strengths-based approach to clinical case management to improve wellbeing and enhance functioning in the community for adults who:

Are experiencing complex mental illness/disorder or psychological distress which is associated with significant functional impairment and/or significant risks.

May be subject to a Psychiatric Treatment Order under the Mental Health Act 2015.

Have multidisciplinary treatment needs that cannot be met elsewhere in the community or less intensive service.

Require regular service contact over a medium to longer-term episode of care.

The successful applicant will be responsible for a caseload of clients with support from an allocated psychiatrist and the multidisciplinary team they work in as well as high quality governance structures/supports. The successful applicant will deliver face to face care and treatment to clients over a sustained period to enable the person to improve in social and other areas of functioning, require less hospital admissions and engage more actively in treatment. The participation of the people who use the service, including families and carers, is encouraged in all aspects of a person’s care and you will work in partnership with a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for clients.

At this level, the successful applicant will be provided with structured professional development opportunities relative to the persons current skill set and knowledge as well as clinical supervision, and under close supervision, provide high quality interventions and achieve sound outcomes for people, contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes, and participate in quality initiatives.

Where this is a temporary position, it may lead to extension or permanency. Selection may be appointed using the written application alone.

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.

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.

To Apply:

Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

***Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position***

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.

The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory’s history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Jake Pennell at (02) 5124 1269 or at Jake.Pennell@act.gov.au

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Job: Allied Health

Salary Range: 76,027.00 - 92,596.00

Closing Date: 27/Sep/2024, 8:59:00 AM