Team Leader

**Please note**: this role may be filled by a Nurse Manager as per attached Role Description.
The Role
An opportunity has become available for a Team Leader (Mental Health - Acute Care Team) to join Gold Coast Health (GCH) where the focus of our 10 000-strong team is on providing world-class health care to people living in the Gold Coast, and northern New South Wales region of Australia.
You will
- Lead the integration of the key objectives from the strategic/operational plans into service delivery
- Integrate the principles of contemporary human, material and financial resource management
- Integrate and operationalise key objectives and strategies for a work-based culture that promotes and supports education, learning, research and workforce development
- Coordinate, formulate and direct policies relating to the provision of mental health care or disciplinary specific specialty services

About you

**To be successful in this position you will require**:

- Possession of a tertiary degree in Occupational Therapy, Psychology or Social Work
- AHPRA Registration (Occupational Therapist/Psychologist only)
- Working with children check (Social Worker only)
- Eligibility for membership to the Australian Association of Social Workers (Social Worker only)
- While not mandatory, appointment or eligibility for appointment as an Authorised Mental Health Practitioner under the Mental Health Act 2016 would be well regarded
- Aged Care check
- Driver licence
- Evidence of vaccination, or be able to be vaccinated against and remain vaccinated against - Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella (Chicken Pox), Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Hepatitis B and COVID 19. This includes receiving the prescribed subsequent dose/s of a COVID-19 vaccination (i.e. booster)
- Tuberculosis screening, to identify if the tuberculosis vaccination may be required
- Declaration of serious discipline history must be disclosed

**Benefits**:

- Flexible work options
- Career Development
- Salary Packaging
- Modern Facilities
- Diverse Work Culture
- Research Opportunities
- Up to 12.75% super
- 17.5% leave loading

Salary
- Permanent full time
- Base salary ranging from $130 149 - $135 803 per annum

About Us
Mental Health and Specialist Services provide integrated hospital and community specialised mental health assessment and treatment services across the age-spectrum. Our services aim to be consumer focused and recovery oriented, based in Southport.
The Acute Care Treatment Team (ACT) provide 24-hour, 7 day a week specialist mental health care services. This team's role is to provide education, support, information, advice and referral. ACT is a mobile assertive outreach crisis response team that offers a range of short-term options tailored to meet individual needs in the community which may also include acute care in the immediate post discharge phase of an inpatient admission, based in Southport.
About Gold Coast Healthy
- Nationally and internationally recognised location for innovative medical research and health care
- Annual operating budget exceeding $1.5 billion
- More than 1100 beds across three hospitals - Gold Coast University Hospital, Robina Hospital, Varsity Lakes Hospital and Robina and Southport Health Precincts
- Secondary and tertiary health services across more than 20 facilities
- Opportunity to combine professional advancement, job satisfaction and relaxation into one fulfilling lifestyle
- A workplace culture that encourages people to bring their whole selves to work so that they can perform at their best
- Committed to reflecting the diversity of the Gold Coast community and ensuring each staff member is included and feels like they belong

How to Apply

**Job Ad reference**: GC441057HP