Employment Type: Full Time (Part Time will be considered), Temporary 12-Month Contract with possibility of extension and/or permanency

Classification: Health Professional Level 3 (PN 33951)

Salary: $105,900 - $119,774 (Plus 11.5% Super)

Location: University of Canberra Hospital, Bruce

Section: The Adult Mental Health Day Service | The Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit

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• 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.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services provides support to youth and adults via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people's homes.

We partner with our health care consumers, their family, carers, government, and community organisations to ensure that they receive the best possible care during their treatment and recovery.

All care that we provide is driven by our values of being kind, reliable, respectful, and progressive. We're also guided by contemporary mental health and human rights legislation which means we operate within a framework that ensures the rights and dignity of people are promoted and protected.

The Adult Mental Health Day Service (AMHDS) is a specialist team within MHJHADS that delivers effective evidence-based and recovery-focused interventions to people living in the community to help enhance their quality of life and/or improve their functional status. The AMHDS offers a variety of programs, including several group-based interventions and other specialist services that target people who are living in the community and who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health conditions. The team aims to provide collaborative care involving the person, their families/carers and community support services.

As part of this position, you also work closely with the Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (AMHRU) team. The AMHRU is an inpatient rehabilitation unit whose aim is to attain and maximise independence through bio-psychosocial rehabilitation in all aspects of daily living for graduated community re-integration. Service delivery is underpinned by evidence based mental health care, the principles of Recovery and the provision of collaborative care involving the person, their careers, and other key stakeholders.

As a senior Occupation Therapist, you will use your expertise in the theoretical and practical application of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions to promote recovery in individuals with moderate to severe mental illness in both an outpatient and in-patient setting. You will deliver discipline-specific evidence-based individual and group interventions to promote wellbeing and meaningful occupation. This position will primarily be based in the AMHDS. As part of this position, you will also contribute your expertise to the AMHRU and the Consultation Liaison Service at the University of Canberra Hospital.

The AMHDS and AMHRU are located at the University of Canberra Hospital.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• 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:

Please submit a copy of your CV along with a 2x page response to the Selection Criteria listed in the position description. Only applications submitted online via the E-Recruitment system will be accepted.

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

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new Critical Services Building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please see the full contact details and how to apply on the CHS Careers Page.