Closes: 18 March 2026
Classification: Health Professional Level 2/Psychologist Level 2
Salary: $91,026 - $117,896 plus superannuation
Position No: 29221, several - 02PUM
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 11 March 2026
Contact Officer: Lauren Hendry on ***************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 1***
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
* 12.5% Superannuation.
* Access to Employee Assistance Program.
About the Role:
There are two position vacancies (open to Psychologists, Social Workers, or Occupational Therapists) available for medium-term temporary appointment for a period of 11-months (with possibility of extension).
One position is primarily based within the community facets of Forensic Mental Health Services, and another is based within the custodial facets of Forensic Mental Health Services. Appointment to a particular program area will be guided by successful candidates' skill sets and interest areas.
Community facets of Forensic Mental Health Services encompass 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 police, courts, and custodial centres) regarding treatment and support of people experiencing mental illness/disorder who are at high-risk of offending and/or those already in the criminal justice system.
Custodial facets of Forensic Mental Health Services provide quality mental health assessments and intervention to adults and young people presenting with mental illness who have had contact with the criminal justice system, including community mental health consumers and detainees within the ACT’s two correctional centres: the Alexander Maconochie Centre and the Bimberi Youth Justice Centre.
As a specialist area, clinicians across Forensic Mental Health Services are provided with specialist training and specialist clinical supervision and are consistently encouraged to be involved in a collaborative and multidisciplinary team environment. Clinicians are supported to maintain continuing professional development requirements, appropriate to area of service provision, including forensic mental health-specific training, individual and group-based clinical supervision, research groups, and regular in-services.
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.
* Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP). Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. For further information on Working with Vulnerable People registration refer to - Apply for or renew a WWVP registration - Access Canberra
* 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.
Note: There are several Full time, Temporary positions available for 11 Months with the possibility of extension.
For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.
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.
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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