COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | INTEGRITY | RESPECT
About us:
The Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (ATOD) Service delivers comprehensive services across Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service and supports neighbouring services in Cape York, Torres Strait, and the Northern Peninsula Area. The service aims to provide accessible, integrated care, including clinical treatment, rehabilitation, disability support, early intervention, and mental health promotion and prevention.
We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.
About your role:
Work cooperatively and effectively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high level and complex forensic mental health and clinical services; including triage, forensic and clinical assessment, treatment, case management, clinical review and crisis management to children and young people with mental health concerns in accordance with prescribed professional and ethical standards.
Apply professional judgement to complex cases, adapting routine forensic mental health and clinical practice based on valid and reliable evidence.
Provide high level forensic mental health specific advice through consultation and court liaison and provision of education to key stakeholders working with young people at risk of mental illness and involvement with criminal Justice system.
Maintain the currency and high quality of forensic mental health and clinical practice knowledge, skills and expertise by actively contributing to and participating in professional development activities, including practice supervision.
For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.
What we offer:
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.
Learn what it's like to work with us, in an inclusive and supportive work environment.
Discover our dynamic and culturally diverse region through community and lifestyle.
Listen to what some of our staff have to say about working in our regions.
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