Job Summary
- $170.07 per hour
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 18th Jun 2024
- Canberra & ACT > Phillip
Althea Wellness Centre (Althea) is Directions Health Services’ primary and psychiatry healthcare team. Directions is an innovative, non-profit organisation that has provided specialist alcohol and other drug (AOD) services in the ACT and NSW for over 40 years. Today, we at Directions offer a comprehensive suite of holistic AOD, mental health and primary health services that aim to reduce harms experienced by individuals, families, and communities, and improve overall health and wellbeing.
Directions’ multidisciplinary team currently includes a psychiatrist, psychologists, social workers, counsellors, Aboriginal health workers, case managers, peer and mental health support workers, GPs, registered nurses, pharmacists and chemical analysts. Directions’ capacity to implement innovative services developed in collaboration with our clients, partners, and other stakeholders, enables us to effectively respond to the changing needs of the communities we serve. At Directions, we pride ourselves on our supportive and inclusive, employee and client-centred culture. Our excellent culture has led to our high staff retention rates and great reputation within the mental health, primary health and AOD sectors.
Althea provides bulk billed GP, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, pharmacology and counselling services to people impacted by current or past AOD use, mental health and other complex health and wellbeing issues. Althea provides these services at our Woden primary health clinic and at outreach locations across the ACT, to engage hard-to-reach communities. The service is primarily designed to meet the needs of people who do not have a regular GP or whose current health needs are not able to be met in mainstream health services.
The General Practitioner will work closely with members of the Althea Wellness Centre team and Directions’ other ACT programs to provide holistic care in a primary health service catering for people with current or past alcohol and other drug (AOD) and co-occurring issues, and their supports.
This is a casual position, hours are negotiable to best suit the right applicant.
All appointments will be conditional upon having a Working with Vulnerable People Check, current First Aid and CPR certificate and a satisfactory National Police Check.
To discuss the role please contact HR at [email protected] using the subject line: General Practitioner - Althea Wellness Centre enquiry via EthicalJobs.
For further information about this position please refer to the attached Position Description.