Mental Health Clinician - AODS and Specialist Teams

Mackay Hospital and Health Service is dedicated to delivering quality health care across the Mackay, Isaac, and Whitsunday regions.

Whether you’re working in regional, rural, or remote settings, we offer unique opportunities and experiences you won’t find in a metropolitan hospital.

Role details

The AODS and Specialist Teams at the Mackay Community Health Centre is seeking applications from an Occupational Therapist or Psychologist or Social Worker or Clinical Nurse to join their team on a temporary basis.

For information on how to apply and the mandatory requirements for this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

The Mental Health Clinician provides high level clinical skills to ensure client-focused evidence-based care, plans and coordinates the clinical management of client care and provides leadership and support to other staff within the Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs Service Division (MHAODSD).

About the Team

The Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team (MIRT) delivers safe, high quality, integrated and evidence driven mental health care. Clinicians provide a responsive, assertive treatment and recovery orientated multidisciplinary service, aimed at improving the quality of life for consumers with complex mental health needs requiring intensive intervention in the community. MIRT assists in facilitating the development or re- engagement with meaningful life roles for consumers, with an explicit belief that people can and do recover from mental illness. Clinicians provide developmentally appropriate, specialist mental health interventions and ongoing assessment for those consumers who require higher intensity treatment and support to recover from mental illness. The team planning, co-ordinate and support a range of internal and external services with consumers and their carer's. Clinicians work with consumers and their networks to develop their sense of self efficacy, personal support systems and live independently to participate fully within their chosen community.

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 3,700 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