Allied Health Assistant

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full-time, Temporary 11 months.
**Classification**: Allied Health Assistant 2/3 (PN 37818)
**Salary**: $62,255 - $83,114 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Health Services
**Section**:Adult Community Mental Health Services
**Closing Date**:4 December 2024

**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.-
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**About the Role**:
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 work within a multidisciplinary team of allied health staff, nurses, psychiatrists, and administrative staff with high quality governance structures/supports. The successful applicant will support allied health and nursing staff, providing a broad range of mental health tasks 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 persons 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 be supported with direct & indirect supervision to provide high quality mental health tasks and achieve sound outcomes for people, contribute to the multidisciplinary team processes, undertake professional development and professional supervision, and participate in quality initiatives.

**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**: 74,132.00 - 81,886.00

**Closing Date**: 04/Dec/2024, 6:59:00 AM