**Description**
**Employment Type**:Full Time, Temporary 6 Months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency
**Classification**: Health Professional Officer Level 2 (PN 45531)
**Salary**:$89,134 - $106,625 (Plus 12% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Hospital, Garran
**Section**:Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services
**Closing Date**:10th August 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**:
Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to children, youth and adults through 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.
MHJHADS services include:
- Adult Community & Older Persons Mental Health Services
- Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services (AIMHS)
- Alcohol & Drug Services (ADS)
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Justice Health Services (JHS)
AIMHS includes the Adult Mental Health Unit (AMHU), Ward 12B and the Mental Health Short Stay Unit (MHSSU). The AMHU is a 40-bed inpatient unit for people experiencing moderate to severe mental illness. AMHU is a contemporary evidence-based service providing high quality mental health care, guided by the principles of Recovery. The service aims to provide collaborative care involving the person, their carers, and other key services. 12B is 10-14-bedroom low dependency inpatient unit for patients with a lower risk of behavioural disturbance or vulnerability. MHSSU is a low dependency 6 bed inpatient unit in the Emergency Department for people requiring extended mental health assessment and/or treatment initiation.
The successful applicant of the HP2 Social Worker position is responsible for conducting skilled clinical assessments and delivering individual and group based social work interventions to consumers. In this role you will contribute clinical expertise to the multidisciplinary team, assist and contribute to the service development and therapy processes.
The successful applicant will also be required to undertake professional development and clinical supervision and participate in quality improvement initiatives. The successful applicant may also provide support supervising staff at the Health Professional 1 level, students and clinically related staff (such as Allied Health Assistants). The position will report operationally to the Allied Health Manager alongside the HP4 Clinical Lead over the program area. Professional governance and discipline specific support is available through the MHJHADS Principal Social Worker.
This is a full-time position working Monday to Friday.
**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.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for the Allied Health professional.
- Current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
**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**: 89,134.00 - 106,625.00
**Closing Date**: 10/Aug/2025, 8:59:00 AM