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• Women's and Children's Health Network, CAMHS, Child Protection & Advocacy Services (CPS), Kaurna Land, North Adelaide
• Classification- AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2- $88,255.00 to $102,240.00 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Part Time (0.6 FTE) - Ongoing Permanent
  
  • Women's and Children's Health Network, CAMHS, Child Protection & Advocacy Services (CPS), Kaurna Land, North Adelaide
  • Salary
    • Classification- AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2- $88,255.00 to $102,240.00 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
  • Part Time (0.6 FTE) - Ongoing Permanent
    
  About The Opportunity
  
  We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the CPS team as a Clinical Psychologist, where you will be responsible for:
  • Delivering forensic psychosocial and parenting assessments to support child protection and identifying risk factors, effects of abuse, and therapeutic needs.
  • Undertaking psychological assessments of children, adolescents, and adults using standardized psychometric tools.
  • Preparing high standard forensic assessment reports suitable for use in all Court Jurisdictions (Youth, Family, and Criminal Courts).
  • Delivering evidence-based psychological therapies to children and families to aid recovery and prevent further harm, in line with clinical practice standards.
    
    
  About You
  
  To be successful in this role, you will have:
  • Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification and general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia within an Endorsed Areas of Practice: Clinical.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly, resolve conflicts, and collaborate effectively with diverse professionals.
  • Proven expertise in conducting comprehensive clinical assessments and producing high-quality reports.
  • Experience working both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, demonstrating flexibility across assessment, therapy, and urgent intervention roles.
  • Experience in providing direct psychological services to children, adolescents and their families affected by trauma.
  • Demonstrated clinical experience in the field of child protection and /or child and family mental health.
    
    
  What WCHN Can Offer You
  • Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
  • Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
  • Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
  • Free public transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital workers to and from the Women's and Children's Hospital. Note: Does not apply to network community sites.
  • Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
  • Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program
    
    
  About Us
  
  The Women's & Children's Health Network is the state's leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:
  • specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
  • state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
  • community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
  • specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.
    
    
  Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia's women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.
  
  Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.
  
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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Enquiries

Vanessa Richardson- Clinical Psychologist, Phone: 81617346, E-mail: Vanessa.Richardson@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: Thursday 4 September 2025 – 11:55pm

Useful Links

AHP2 - Clinical Psychologist - Role Description - 910974.pdfSeniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typePart-time

Job function

• Job functionHealth Care Provider
• IndustriesHospitals and Health Care

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