Role details

The Continuing Care Team at the Mackay Community Health Centre is seeking applications for a Mental Health Clinician (Occupational Therapist or Psychologist or Social Worker or Clinical Nurse) to join their team on a permanent basis.

How to apply and for mandatory requirements regarding this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

Work within a multidisciplinary team to provide mental health case-management services to adults with a chronic and/or severe mental illness and adjunct co-morbidities. Case-management will include assessment, intervention and treatment as well as group work as required, in accordance with professional standards and legislation.

About the Team

The Continuing Care Team works individually and in group settings to provide ongoing mental health interventions. The service objectives are:

• Always strive to have the consumer and family or carers at the centre of any care intervention.
• To provide holistic, contemporary recovery focussed mental health care.
• To promote and maintain mental and physical wellbeing for all consumers.
• To ensure that services are accessible and responsive to individual needs.
• To ensure services are delivered safely, reducing risk or potential harm as much as possible.
• To ensure that any intervention assists the individual maintain an engaging and self-determined lifestyle in the community.
• Ensure the service is evaluated via accreditation, KPI's and other methods of audit or feedback informing continuous service improvement.
• To have a capable workforce able to respond to the complex competing needs of the population we serve.
• To advocate for the consumer who may be experiencing stigma or marginalisation as a result of mental illness and psychiatric disability.
• To educate and raise awareness of serious mental illness to the wider community.
• To ensure the service delivered is value for money.

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service ( https://www.mackay.health.qld.gov.au/ ) has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 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

Workforce attraction incentive scheme

You may be eligible to receive the Incentive Scheme 1, the scheme is available to health workers that relocate from interstate or international to come work within our team may receive up to $20,000 in incentive payments under the Queensland Health Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme (conditions apply). ( https://www.careers.health.qld.gov.au/working-for-us/workforce-attraction-incentive-scheme )