Mental Health Clinician

Mental Health Clinician - Perinatal Mental Health
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

- 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.

- 12% Superannuation.

- Access to Employee Assistance Program.

- Access to discounted gym membership.

- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.

- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.

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. Our service delivery is attachment theory based, and trauma informed, with a strengths and recovery focus.

The PIMHCS aims to be responsive and flexible in our service delivery, recognising the importance of the mother‑infant relationship and keeping the needs and safety of the child central to care and treatment planning.

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

The PIMHCS clinical and support services include psychiatric clinics, GP consultation, comprehensive perinatal mental health assessments and treatment planning as well as collaborative work with other mental health clinicians, midwives and other support services, such as the child and family centres and CYPS.

The service also provides psychoeducation, therapeutic support in adjusting to pregnancy and parenting, and mother‑infant attachment interventions including the Circle of Security (COS) parenting program, Mother-Infant Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (MI-DBT) and Building Blocks, an infant lead play mother‑infant group.

Health Professional Officers within the CAMHS are expected to be actively involved in professional development and supervision, participate in quality improvement 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.

Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of 11 and a half months. 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.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. For further information on Working with Vulnerable People registration refer to -Apply for or renew a WWVP registration - Access Canberra

- 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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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.

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This is a temporary position available for a period of 11 and a half months.

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