Description:
- Utilise your expertise to review, investigate and audit mental healthcare and AOD service delivery.
- Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team.
- VPS Grade 5: $109,730 - $132,764 plus superannuation.
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Senior Clinical Oversight Officer, Mental Health and AOD to provide a critical role within Justice Health.
About the Business Unit
The Corrections and Justice Services (CJS) group, comprising Corrections Victoria (CV), Justice Health and Justice Services, plays an integral role in developing safer and more resilient communities and in delivering a trusted justice and community safety system.
Justice Health is responsible for:
- The delivery of primary health, primary mental health and specialist forensic mental health services for people in Victorian custodial facilities and young people in custodial centres. In Victoria, health services to people in adult correctional and youth justice facilities are delivered by both public and private providers
- Managing relevant contractual arrangements, including overseeing the delivery of health services and the provision and maintenance of all medical records in an electronic medical record
- Facilitating the release of health information to community health care providers, legal representatives, and individuals
- The design, procurement and delivery of new and innovative, evidenced-based health services that meet the needs of people of all ages and genders in custody.
The Adult Health Services Unit is responsible for:
- Oversight of the delivery of health services across the Victorian adult correctional system
- Ensuring service providers work collaboratively to ensure integrated and coordinated approaches to meeting the needs of men and women in custody
- Driving ongoing improvements to service delivery.
About the Role
The role of the Senior Clinical Oversight Officer, Mental Health and AOD is to review, investigate and audit mental health and AOD service delivery, including through location-based audits, provide evidence-based clinical advice to inform service design and system improvements and maintain sound systems, policies and procedures that support audits and reviews.
What you will do as a Senior Clinical Oversight Officer, Mental Health and AOD:
- Review , investigate and audit mental healthcare and AOD service delivery.
- Provide evidence-based clinical advice to inform mental health and AOD service design and system improvements .
- Work collaboratively with key stakeholders, including other teams in Justice Health and Corrections Victoria, to identify and respond to issues and risks that affect health care outcomes .
To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Demonstrated experience in delivery of mental and/or AOD healthcare services in highly sensitive and complex environments.
- Demonstrated experience in a quality focused role.
Qualifications
- A tertiary qualification in a mental health, AOD or related field.
- Current AHPRA registration is desirable .
How to Apply
Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.