At a Glance
- Tasks: Join the Acute Care Team to provide crisis management and assessment for mental health patients.
- Company: Mackay Community Health Centre, part of a large health service with diverse opportunities.
- Benefits: Competitive wages, flexible hours, career development, and wellness programs.
- Other info: Work in a supportive team environment with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while growing your skills in mental health care.
- Qualifications: Must be an Occupational Therapist, Psychologist, Social Worker, or Clinical Nurse.
The predicted salary is between 69300 - 84700 $ per year.
Role details The Acute Care Team at the Mackay Community Health Centre is seeking applications from Occupational Therapists or Psychologists or Social Workers or Clinical Nurses to join their team on a permanent basis.
For information on how to apply and the mandatory requirements for this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Your opportunity The position will be based in Mackay as part of the Acute Care Team.
The position will provide Intake/triage, assessment and crisis management functions as part of the Mackay Division of Mental Health Acute Care Team.
The position will work a varied roster 7 days a week with RDO accrual.
The position works all shifts (morning, afternoon and night shifts).
The position provides a competent standard of clinical care through the provision of specialist triage/ intake, assessment and short-term crisis care services to persons who suffer from a mental disorder within the Mackay Integrated Mental Health Network.
The Clinical Health Practitioner provides clinical skills to ensure patient, recovery-focused evidence-based care, plans and coordinates the clinical management of patient/client care within a multidisciplinary team within Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs Service.
To provide an evidence-based standard of care by providing individual and holistic care, giving due consideration to the needs of the client, relatives and carers for the assessment, treatment, maintenance, and support of people with mental health conditions.
Effectively liaise, network and facilitate an integrated approach that is recovery focussed, evidence based across the continuum of care.
Initiate and actively participate in quality improvement projects that facilitate the review and evaluation of the target service and associated processes.
About the Team The Acute Care Team is the first point of contact to public mental health services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Team will undertake triage and may facilitate the referral of the consumer to a more appropriate internal and/or external service such as a community mental health team, an alcohol and drug service or primary health care.
About our Hospital and Health Service Mackay Hospital and Health Service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,500 staff.
The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.
Some of our great benefits on offer Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements Flexible working arrangements A diverse work culture Career development Professional development opportunities Education opportunities, Study and Research Paid parental leave Employee Assistance Program (EAP)Discounted Private Health Insurance Fitness Passport This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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