Clinical Manager

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Temporary 7 Month Contract with the possibility of extension and or permanency
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 3/ Psychologist Level 3 (PN 21788)
**Salary**: $108,459 - $122,546 (Plus 11.5% Super) - Health Professional Level 3

**Salary**:$119,610 - $129,882 (Plus 11.5% Super) - Psychologist Level 3

**Note**:This role will be filled at either Health Professional Level 3 or Psychologist Level P3 depending on qualifications and experience, in line with the Enterprise Agreement
**Location**:Canberra
**Section**:Adult Community Mental Health Services
**Closing Date**:**26th 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.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to discounted gym membership.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.

**About the Role**:
This position is open to Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, and Psychologists.

Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to people via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes. These services include:

- Adult Acute Mental Health Services
- Adult Community Mental Health Services
- Alcohol & Drug Services
- Justice Health Services
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) includes:
Intake services:

- Access Mental Health Service
- Home Assessment & Acute Response Team (HAART)

Community Recovery Services:

- Gungahlin
- Belconnen
- City
- Woden
- Tuggeranong

Community Specialty Services:

- Assertive Community Outreach Service (ACOS)
- Older Persons Community Mental Health Team
- Mental Health Link
- Therapies
- Neuropsychology

This position is primarily located within the Community Recovery Services (CRS) but staff may be required to work across all of Adult Community Mental Health Services to meet operational demands. CRS are a multi-disciplinary team of Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Psychiatry Registrars and Consultant Psychiatrists, and Administration Service Officers.

CRS provide a recovery-focused, strengths-based approach to clinical case management to improve wellbeing and enhance functioning in the community for adults who:

- Are experiencing complex mental illness/disorder or psychological distress which is associated with significant functional impairment and/or significant risks.
- Have multidisciplinary treatment needs that cannot be met elsewhere in the community or less intensive service.
- Require regular service contact over a medium to longer-term episode of care.

The successful applicant will be responsible for a caseload of clients with support from an allocated psychiatrist and the multidisciplinary team they work in as well as high quality governance structures/supports. The successful applicant will deliver face to face care and treatment to clients over a sustained period to enable the person to improve in social and other areas of functioning, require less hospital admissions and engage more actively in treatment. The participation of the people who use the service, including families and carers, is encouraged in all aspects of a person’s care and you will work in partnership with a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for clients.

At this level, the successful applicant will provide high quality interventions and achieve sound outcomes for people under limited supervision, contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes, undertake professional development and professional supervision including the provision of supervision to staff at level HP1 & HP2, Allied Health Assistants and students, and participate in quality initiatives and strategic planning.

Where this is a temporary position, it may lead to extension or permanency.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the**_Position Description._**
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Hold a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
- Unconditional registration or eligibility for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) or eligibility for membership with the AASW.
- 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 h