Mental Health Clinician, Haart

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Temporary 11 months with possibility of extension and/ or permanency
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 2 (PN 63808)
**Salary**:$85,893 - $103,039 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital, Garran
**Section**:Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services
**Closing Date**:12 September 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.-
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**About the Role**:
The position is situated within Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS), under the Intake Services Teams, which is a specialist mental health service that provides health care and support for people aged from 18 years old. ACMHS provides evidenced based and personalised care planning for recovering people while also collaborating with carers, Nominated Persons, supports and other key stakeholders.

ACMHS teams operate across the Australian Capital Territory, adhering to both the Adult Community Mental Health Model of Care and the Older Persons Community Mental Health Model of Care. ACMHS program area services the community’s mental health needs in the areas of intake, recovery, supported and therapeutic accommodation, therapy, older persons, neuropsychology, assertive community outreach, homeless outreach, and intensive home treatment. The Intake Services Teams - Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) includes the Home Assessment and Acute Response Team (HAART) and includes a Police Ambulance Clinician Early Response (PACER) service.

HAART provides acute and crisis interventions to facilitate hospital diversion, outreach assessment and treatment to people experiencing and living with a moderate to severe mental illness and complex needs in a community setting. HAART provides assessments and intervention for acute mental health presentations.

PACER is a tri-service mental health co-response capability which works in partnership with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and ACT Ambulance Services to provide a Police Officer, Ambulance Paramedic, and a Level 3 Mental Health Clinician who will provide a timely mobile response to people experiencing mental health crisis.

HAART, inclusive of PACER operates seven days a week, including weekends and public holidays, and has an overnight on call arrangement. The position holder will be required to work a rotating roster of 8 and 10-hour shifts, including on call arrangement overnight and reports to the HAART Team Leader.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the **_Position Description._**
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.**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**: 85,893.00 - 103,039.00

**Closing Date**: 12/Sep/2024, 8:59:00 AM