COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | INTEGRITY | RESPECT About us: The Cairns and Hinterland Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs Service (MHAODS) delivers specialist mental health and alcohol and other drug services across the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, while supporting services in Cape York, Torres Strait and the Northern Peninsula Area.
The service provides a comprehensive range of treatment, rehabilitation, disability support, early intervention, prevention and health promotion programs to improve mental health and wellbeing across the region.
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 opportunity: In this position you will....
Deliver high-quality evidence based clinical services (including tele-triage, tele-health assessments, generic and profession specific biopsychosocial mental health assessment, treatment, investigation, diagnosis and short term client management) child and youth, adult, and elderly consumers in accordance with qualified and ethical standards.
Apply independent high level clinical judgement and decision making to complex clinical presentations.




Maintain and support reporting lines to the Access Services Team Leader and Access Services Operations Director to ensure delivery of clinical services within a quality improvement framework, in a multidisciplinary team across a complex and varied work environment.
Provide clinical practice and professional supervision to less experienced staff, including students and those with provisional registration, to ensure the maintenance of professional clinical standards within the service.
For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
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📌 Allied Health Clinician - Senior (Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker) Access Services - Cairns, Queensland Health
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