Health Professional Level 3

3 weeks ago


Canberra, Australia ACT Government Health Full time

**Health Professional Level 3**
**(**
**Job Number**:
**028MR**
**)**

**Description**

**Directorate**
- Canberra Health Services**Branch**
- Adult Acute Mental Health Services**Section**
- Adult Mental Health Unit, 12B & Mental Health Short Stay Unit**Position Number**
- 13143**Position Title**
- Social Worker**Classification**
- Health Professional Level 3**Vacancy Type**
- Permanent Full-time**Vacancy Length**
- Permanent**Location
- The Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT**Base Annual Salary**
- $99,819 - $105,180 (up to $110,398 on achieving a personal upgrade)**Contact Officer**Closing Date**
- 01 March 2023**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

**POSITION OVERVIEW**:
The Office of the Director of Allied Health in Mental Health, Justice Health, Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides strategic leadership, professional governance and advocacy for Allied Health in MHJHADS. The Office of the Director of Allied Health also provides leadership to a range of allied health operational teams including the Allied Health Adult Acute Mental Health Services Team who work in the Adult Mental Health Unit (AMHU), Ward 12B and the Mental Health Short Stay Unit (MHSSU).

The AMHU is a 40-bed inpatient unit for people experiencing moderate to severe mental illness. AMHU is a contemporary evidence-based service providing high quality mental health care, guided by the principles of Recovery. The service aims to provide collaborative care involving the person, their carers and other key services.

12B is 10-bedroom low dependency inpatient unit for patients with a lower risk of behavioural disturbance or vulnerability.

MHSSU is a low dependency 6 bed inpatient unit in the Emergency Department for people requiring extended mental health assessment and/or treatment initiation.

The successful applicant of the HP3 Social Work position is responsible for conducting skilled clinical assessments and delivering individual and group based social work interventions to people. The successful applicant will also be required to undertake professional development and clinical supervision, participate in quality improvement initiatives, and contribute to multidisciplinary team processes. It is an expectation that the successful applicant will provide supervision to staff at the Health Professional 1 and 2 levels, as well as to students and clinically related staff (such as Allied Health Assistants).

The position will report operationally and clinically to the Allied Health Manager and Allied Health Clinical Lead of AAMHS respectively. Professional governance of this position will come from the Discipline Principal Social Work (MHJHADs).

This is a full-time position working Monday to Friday within the Allied Health team and will provide services to the Adult Mental Health Unit, 12B, Mental Health Short Stay Unit, and to any mental health surge wards that open at Canberra Hospital.

The Allied Health team is made up of diverse group of allied health professions that work together to support the recovery goals of consumers admitted to any of the Adult Mental Health Inpatient facilities.

**DUTIES**:
Under limited direction of the Allied Health Manager and Allied Health Clinical Lead, you will perform independent professional judgement on moderately complex tasks.

You will:

- Provide a high level of appropriate skilled social work clinical assessment and interventions to consumers with severe, complex and /or acute mental health issues within the social work scope of practice and using established best practice frameworks.
- Include carers, children, Nominated Persons, GPs, and other service providers in the recovery planning process, as required.
- Adhere to risk management processes and identify risks, suggest mitigating actions and escalating issues appropriately.
- Complete clinical records and administrative data collection to standards.
- Participate in clinical supervision, continuing professional development and personal performance review process. Provide professional supervision and training to Health Professionals Level 1 & 2, Health Professionals Level 3 as appropriate, students, Allied Health Assistants, and other support staff.
- Initiate, coordinate and contribute to the implementation of clinical governance activities, quality improvement projects, research programs, and health promotion in areas relevant to service. Provide education to internal and external stakeholders.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

**ABOUT YOU**:
**Behavioural Capabilities**
- Demonstrated leadership qualities in managing and positively influencing teams, processes and practice improvement in a human services environment.
- Ability to mentor more junior staff and students and external parties in a collabora



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