Senior Scientific Officer - Mental Health - Perm FT

at  South Western Sydney Local Health District

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per week
Location: District Wide Service
Position Classification: Senior Scientific Officer
Remuneration: $108,607.90 - $142,553.19 per annum
Requisition ID: REQ490779
Application Close Date: 10/06/2024
Interview Date Range: 13/06/2024 – 20/06/2024
Contact Details: Phillipa Hay – phillipa.hay@health.nsw.gov.au

TRANSFORMING YOUR EXPERIENCE

Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TO A POSITION IN NSW HEALTH, YOU MUST HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP OR PERMANENT AUSTRALIAN RESIDENCY.

At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ️ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ️ background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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The Mental Health Senior Research Officer (MHSRO) plays a central role in providing high-level support to the Director and research groups within the South Western Sydney Mental Health Research Unit in promoting, facilitating, developing and overseeing research in SWSLHD Mental Health Services (MHS). Undertaking a key supporting role in progressing the strategic vision for research as per the MHS Research Strategy.
The MHSRO may play an active role in leadership within the MHS Research and Practice Committee, supervision, assisting in managing large number of research grants, and project, coordinating research funding schemes and opportunities, providing supervision and advice to MHS staff on research mentorship, methods, responding to research enquiries, contributing to research ethics and governance processes, devising and implementing statistical analyses, presenting findings and interpreting the results. MHSRO will foster collaboration in research within the LHD as well as nationally and internationally. This is a MHS district role and will be instrumental in guiding the MHS towards meeting the requirements of the SWSLHD Research Strategy.