Closes: 22 April 2026
Classification: Health Professional Level 3/Psychologist Level 3
Salary: $111,639 - $133,492 plus superannuation
Position No: 40170 - 02Q5O
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 15 April 2026
Contact Officer: Jessica Page on ************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 3***
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:
As a senior health professional, 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, as well as use your skills and knowledge in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to provide leadership and delivery of the DBT program, including individual therapy and DBT skills group.
Under limited direction of the Allied Health Manager and Allied Health Clinical Lead, you will perform independent professional judgement on moderately complex tasks.
Notes: This position is part-time at 22:05 hours per week, and the full-time salary noted above will be paid pro-rata. This is a multi-classified position with possibility of appointment at Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist. There is only one position available. An Order of Merit may be used to fill future vacancies at the same level within a 12-month period.
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.
* 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.
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.
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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Note
This position is part-time at 22:05 hours per week, and the full-time salary noted above will be paid pro-rata. This is a multi-classified position with possibility of appointment at Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist. There is only one position available.
Career interest categories:
Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services