Employment Type: 1 x Full Time Permanent

Classification: Health Professional Level 2/ Psychologist level 2 (PN 23743)

HPO2 Salary: $91,026 - $108,691 (Plus 12.5% Super)

P2 Salary: $91,026 - $117,896 (Plus 12.5% Super) Location: Canberra Health Services

Section: Adult Community Mental Health Services Closing Date: 20 August 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
- 5% Superannuation.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy, and gift shop.
- Up to $12K reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates. (subject to review and approval)

About the Role: Join Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) and make a real difference in the lives of people experiencing mental health challenges across the ACT. As part of the Intake Services Team, you will work within the Home Assessment and Acute Response Team (HAART), including the innovative Police Ambulance Clinician Early Response (PACER) service, delivering timely, evidence-based and recovery-focused care to adults experiencing acute mental health crises.

ACMHS provides specialised community mental health services for adults aged 18 years and over, working collaboratively with consumers, carers, support networks and key stakeholders to promote recovery and wellbeing. In this rewarding role, you will conduct community-based assessments and interventions, support hospital diversion, and contribute to the PACER tri-service response alongside ACT Policing and ACT Ambulance Service,



ensuring people receive the right care at the right time.

The successful applicant will bring experience in mental health assessment and crisis intervention, strong clinical decision-making and risk assessment skills, and a commitment to recovery-oriented, trauma-informed care. You will thrive in a collaborative environment and be confident working with consumers, carers, families and community partners to achieve positive outcomes.

HAART and PACER operate seven days a week, including weekends and public holidays, with an overnight on-call service. The successful applicant will work a rotating roster of 8- and 10-hour shifts and report to the HAART Team Leader. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a agile, multidisciplinary team at the forefront of community mental health crisis response.

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.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011is required.




- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

To Apply: Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with 2 recent referee reports and 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 see the full contact details and how to apply on the CHS Careers Page.

📌 Health Professional Level 2 - Community mental health clinician-HAART (Canberra)
🏢 Canberra Health Services
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