Senior Health Professional - Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services
Employment Type: Part time (22:05 hours per week), Permanent
Classification: Health Professional Level 3, Psychologist Level 3 (PN 40170)
Health Professional Level 3 Salary: $111,639 - $120,057 (Plus 12.5%25 Super)
Psychologist Level 3 Salary: $123,014 - $133,492 (Plus 12.5%25 Super)
Location: University of Canberra Hospital, Bruce ACT
Section: Adult Mental Health Day Service & Rehabilitation Unit (AMHDS & AMHRU)
Closing Date: 22 April 2026
What can we offer you:
• | Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital. |
• | Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions. |
• | Flexible working conditions. |
• | 12.5%25 Superannuation. |
• | Access to Employee Assistance Program. |
About the Role:
As a senior health professional, you will use your expertise in the theoretical and practical application of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions to promote recovery in individuals with moderate to severe mental illness in both an outpatient and in-patient setting. You will deliver discipline-specific evidence-based individual and group interventions to promote wellbeing and meaningful occupation, as well as use your skills and knowledge in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to provide leadership and delivery of the DBT program, including individual therapy and DBT skills group.
Under limited direction of the Allied Health Manager and Allied Health Clinical Lead, you will perform independent professional judgement on moderately complex tasks.
This position is offered on a part‑time basis within this service environment.
Please note
• | An Order of Merit may be used to fill future vacancies at the same level within a 12-month period. |
• | This is a multi-classified position with possibility of appointment at Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist. There is only one position available. |
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
• | Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check. |
• | Current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. |
• | Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy. |
• | Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals. |
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To Apply:
Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page Response to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.
***Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position***
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory’s history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Jessica Page on (02) 5124 3618 or at Jessica.Page@act.gov.au
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