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Clinical Service Manager - Head to Health - Townsville

Neami National

“Full citizenship for all people living with a mental health issues in Australian society”

About the Role

  • Full Time, Permanent

The Clinical Service Manager will ensure Head to Health provides safe and effective immediate and short to medium term responses to adults experiencing a crisis or significant distress. As the CSM you will initiate, lead, and coordinate strategic partnerships within the community, including with Public Mental Health Services, local government, community housing, and health and welfare providers, to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for consumers. In collaboration with partners, staff and consumers, the CSM will identify service gaps and develop appropriate models of service delivery to address these gaps. The CSM will take a lead role in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the AMHC and will the support of the Regional Manager.

Core duties

  • Provide clinical oversight for and positive leadership of the services, to ensure all staff within the team work together to achieve excellence in service delivery, within the available resources.
  • Facilitate a strong clinical governance culture within the team, where each practitioner takes responsibility for their own decision making and quality improvement activities, whilst supporting the clinical governance framework of Neami. Including monitoring and evaluation to ensure Neami’s internal audits and external accreditation requirements are met.
  • Promote Neami’s culture of practice, which is underpinned by the principles of Collaborative Recovery. Ensure that a consumer-centred approach is used in the provision of intake, assessment and referral services
  • Provide services that are consistent with Neami’s Clinical Governance Framework

What will you need?

  • The Clinical Service Manager will be expected to be a Registered Psychologist, Occupational Therapist or Registered Nurse with a current annual practicing certificate from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency is essential or a Social Worker with eligibility to register with the Australian Association of Social Work.
  • AHPRA Registration and maintenance of registration standards and continuing professional development (CPD)
  • Experience working in cross cultural settings, especially with first nations people
  • Experience working within a recovery-oriented service
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Computer literacy and written communication skills
  • Police check
  • Driver’s licence
  • Neami National will require, as part of our condition of employment, that all candidates applying for any position must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19
  • Candidates will be required to provide appropriate evidence of COVID-19 vaccination to Neami National.

Incentives include:

  • Diverse and inclusive organisation
  • Induction and extensive Learning and Development Program
  • Regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor
  • Salary Packaging providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Application

The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the position description. If you have any further questions not addressed in the advertising words or position description, please contact:

Rebecca Verzeletti, Regional Manager, North Queensland: 0448 027 268

[email protected] using the subject line: Clinical Service Manager - Head to Health - Townsville enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We celebrate multidisciplinary teams and value the rich skills and experiences brought by applicants from a range of sectors and professional backgrounds. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

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