Coordinator Community Day Therapy

This recruitment process offers a Permanent Part Time appointment. We currently have 0.8 (60.80 Hrs) FTE available. At South Metropolitan Health Service, every employee contributes to delivering safe, high-quality care to our community. Guided by our vision of Excellent health care, every time, we place research, innovation and continuous improvement at the centre of everything we do. We are building a culture of shared learning and leadership that reflects our commitment to being Collectively One, Locally Led.

The Peel and Rockingham Kwinana (PaRK) Mental Health Service invites applications from experienced and passionate professionals to join the team as Coordinator Community Day Therapy. The successful applicant shall plan, implement, coordinate and evaluate Community Day Therapy Services to clients of the PaRK mental health service in the clinical specialty area of older adult mental health using advanced clinical practice skills. This position shall undertake a complex and general caseload. The applicant is responsible to the relevant discipline coordinator for maintenance of professional standards.

About us: Our Values guide our work in every action, and that includes recruitment and employment! SMHS encourages Aboriginal people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or LGBTI communities, and people with disability to work with us. Whatever your age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and family/carer responsibilities are, we ask that you consider bringing your expertise to our workforce.

Rockingham Peel Group provides hospital and community-based public healthcare services to a growing population of more than 200,000 people across Perth’s southern metropolitan region. At the heart of the Group is the 229-bed Rockingham General Hospital, which offers a comprehensive range of services including emergency care, acute and general medicine, surgery, mental health, paediatrics, neonatal care and maternity services. The Group includes the Mandurah and Kwinana Community Health Centres, delivering a broad range of health promotion, disease prevention and community health programs to support the wellbeing of individuals and families across the region.

PaRK provides mental health services to adults and older adults living in the communities of Kwinana, Rockingham, Mandurah, Pinjarra and Waroona. The PaRK mental health service is a vibrant and progressive organisation whose mission is to provide safe and progressive patient care within a positive work environment and culture. There is a broad suite of services available including adult and older adult inpatient (including an ECT program) and adult and older adult community services as well as a number of speciality services including emergency department liaison, consultation liaison, day therapy, hospital in the home, early episode psychosis, assertive community treatment, perinatal, GP liaison, drug and alcohol services, Aboriginal mental health services, community step up and step-down accommodation among others.

We offer a range of therapeutic programs including CBT, DBT rehabilitation services and peer support. We take pride in our strong links with our community partners and the community at large. Our service provides evidence-based care with strong consumer and carer engagement; we work collaboratively to support the patients' long-term recovery.

Application and assessment support: If you have any access needs that may require adjustments to allow you to fully participate in the application and assessment process, please contact Tailah Greenwood, A/Team Leader. If you are an Aboriginal person who would like assistance with your application, please contact Jobs and Skills WA.

Employee Benefits: Professional Development Opportunities and Study leave/assistance, Flexible working arrangements, Flexible leave arrangements, Other professional and location-based allowances.

Eligibility to Apply: To be eligible for appointment, applicants must have valid Australian work rights. This includes visa holders. Permanent appointments may be made to individuals who hold citizenship, permanent residency, or visas that enable ongoing employment in Australia. WA Health embraces diversity and is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of our service. We are committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce as a part of WA Health’s Aboriginal Workforce Policy and as a measure to achieve equality. Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply.

WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility. WA Health policies require applicants to undertake a criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process. As well as undertaking a criminal record screening and integrity checking, you may also be required to undertake a working with children check (if required for the role) and a pre-employment health assessment. We may ask referees to comment on your integrity and past demonstration of ethical behaviour. Please note that adverse information does not necessarily disqualify an applicant but will be considered as part of the appointment process.

This vacancy is subject to a Western Australian Working With Children (WWC) Check. For further information please refer to the WWC website. Whilst this selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy, applicants found suitable for this position may be considered for other similar vacancies within SMHS and/or the wider WA public sector. In addition to this, should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised vacancy, then the next most suitable applicant may also be selected from this process. Both of these options remain valid for a period of twelve (12) months from when the authorised delegate endorses the recruitment decision.