Duty Officer

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Temporary 10 Month Contract with the possibility of extension and/or permanency
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 2 (PN 56855, 38607)
**Salary**:$85,893 - $103,039 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Various
**Section**:Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
**Closing Date**:3 October 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.- 11.5% Superannuation.-
**About the Role**:
Mental Health, Justice Health, Alcohol & Drug Services (MHJHADS) provide health services directly and through partnerships with community organisations. The services provided a range from prevention and treatment to recovery, maintenance, and harm minimisation. Consumer and carer participation is encouraged in all aspects of service planning and delivery. The Division works in partnership with consumers, carers and a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for clients.

The Division delivers services at a number of locations, including hospital inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, detention centres, other community settings including peoples’ homes.

These services include:

- Adult Community & Older Persons Mental Health Services- Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services- Alcohol & Drug Services (ADS)- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)- Justice Health Services (JHS)CAMHS provides assessment and treatment for young people up to the age of 18 years who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health issues. CAMHS also provides high quality tertiary mental health care for young people aged 14-25 experiencing first onset psychosis.

The CAMHS Duty Officers are situated within the CAMHS community teams at Belconnen Community Health Centre and Cosmopolitan Building, Bowes St Phillip. The CAMHS Duty Officers provide triage, phone assessment, including crisis response, and face-to-face multidisciplinary assessments within a recovery framework to children and Young People up to the age of 18 and their families.

There may be future scope to provide single session interventions for children and young people with mental health issues and their families, facilitate group work, in-reach into Bimberi Youth Justice Centre, police stations, and support Police, Ambulance, Clinician Early Response (PACER) where needed to complete assessments of young people. As a HP2 clinician you will provide support to HP1 clinicians.

CAMHS is seeking a dynamic and experienced Health Professional Level 2 to fulfill the requirements of the Duty Officer role. Under the direction of a Team Manager / Senior Clinician, the HP2 will provide triage, mental health assessment, including risk assessments and psychoeducation as well as referral management.

The role will also require the team member to undertake professional development and supervision, participate in quality initiatives and contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the **_Position Description._**
- 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.***
- Be available to work within all program areas of CAMHS as service needs arise.- An Order of Merit may be used to fill future identical full time permanent vacancies within a 12-month period.-
**To Apply**:
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
- 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 buildi