Project Officer

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Part-time (14.7 hours per week), Temporary, 6 months with possibility of extension.
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 4/ Psychologist Level 4 (PN 43290)
**Note**: This role will be filled at either Health Professional Level 4 or Psychologist Level 4 depending on qualifications and experience, in line with the Enterprise Agreement.
**Salary for HP4**: $124,103 - $137,742 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Salary for P4**:$132,115 - $138,896 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Health Services
**Section**:Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services
**Closing Date**:**17 January 2025

**What can we offer you**:

- 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.
- 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**:
Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to children, youth and adults via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes. MHJHADS aims to be socially inclusive and operate within a recovery-focused and/or harm minimisation approach.

The Office of the Director of Allied Health provides strategic leadership and governance in the development of professional practice of allied health staff in MHJHADS.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Community Teams Student-Led Clinic, Project Officer role is a new position created to establish the framework for a student-led clinic within CAMHS to enhance placement options for provisional psychologists within CHS. This is an initiative supported by the Psychology Discipline in the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra and funded through a Commonwealth grant from the “Mental Health Program Addressing Critical Psychology Shortages - Postgraduate Psychology Incentive Program.”

The project period is for 3 months, with the aim of developing and establishing the required operational guidelines, processes and resources to manage a clinical psychology student-led clinic for CAMHS Community Teams that delivers best practice care and high-quality student education.

**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.

**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
- 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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**Job**: Allied Health

**Salary Range**: 124,103.00 - 137,742.00

**Contact Name**: Kirsten Stafford

**Closing Date**: 17/Jan/2025, 6:59:00 AM