Clinical Lead

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full-time, Temporary 11 months with possibility of extension and/ or permanency.
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 4/ Psychologist Level 4 (PN 17951)
**Salary for HP4**: $124,103 - $137,742 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Salary for P4**: $132,115 - $138,896 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Note**:This role will be filled at either a Health Professional Level 4 or Psychologist Level 4 depending on qualifications and experience, in line with the Enterprise Agreement.
**Location**:Canberra Health Services, 1 Moree Street, Canberra ACT
**Section**:Forensic Mental Health Services
**Closing Date**:**13 February 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**:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the collegial Forensic Community Mental Health Service (FCMHS), within Forensic Mental Health Services. FCMHS is a specialist multidisciplinary tertiary mental health service that aims to provide expert assessment, knowledge, and skills to general mental health services (including community and inpatient services) and other stakeholders (including the police, the courts and custodial centres) regarding the treatment and support of people experiencing mental illness/disorder who are at high risk of offending or those already in the criminal justice system.

This is a temporary leave backfill opportunity available from March 2025 to February 2026 and an exciting opportunity for experienced senior clinicians. As a specialist area, you will be provided with specialist training and access to specialist clinical supervision. You will be supporting a collaborative and multidisciplinary team, and you will be supported to maintain any continuing professional development requirements, appropriate to area of service provision, such as attendance to group supervision, research groups, and/or in
- services.

Forensic Mental Health Services (FMHS) is a unit of Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol & Drug Services, Justice Health Services. FMHS provides mental health care across the lifespan and across a range of settings, including a centralised community health facility, youth and adult custodial facilities, off campus community liaison, court settings, and secure inpatient units. The care provided is underpinned by the National Principles for Forensic Mental Health Services. The service aims to provide collaborative care guided by principles of Recovery and involving the consumer, their carers and other key services.

FMHS is one service with three distinguishable, yet integrated service components as follows:
Custodial Mental Health services (CMH) including:

- CMH - Child and Adolescent at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (CMH - CA)
- CMH - Adult at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (CMH - A)

Forensic Inpatient Mental Health Services (FMHIS)
- Dhulwa and Gawanggal Mental Health Units

Forensic Community Mental Health Services (FCMHS) including:

- FMHS Forensic Consultation and Intervention Service (FoCIS) including:

- ACT Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (ACT FTAC)
- FMHS Mental Health Court Assessment and Liaison Service (MHCALS)

**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._

**Job**: Allied Health

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

**Closing Date**