Camhs Rn2

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 829823

**Location**: 5112 - ELIZABETH

**Job status**: Ongoing

**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - Elizabeth 5112**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - RN/M2C - Clinical Nurse/Midwife LV2 - $79,998 to $101,120 p.a**
- **Employment Full time - Ongoing Permanent**

**Overview**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** provides state of the art health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We are the state’s leading provider of specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions as well as being SA’s largest maternity and obstetric service.

Our community-based services also reach hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across South Australia through our various services and programs in areas such as our Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth Health and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our 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.

**The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)** is a free community-based tertiary mental health service provided through the WCHN across South Australia, providing care to those with severe and/or complex mental health needs. CAMHS provides services to: infants / children / young people up to 18 (16 in some areas) for community, state-wide and hospital-based services for perinatal women.

**The Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity for suitably qualified and registered **RN2 Mental Health Nurse** to join **CAMHS** Northern Community (Elizabeth) in a **fulltime**, **ongoing** capacity.

As a **Mental Health Clinical Nurse** you will assess, educate, counsel and co-ordinate group work. These are considered essential components of care which is directed towards the attainment of optimum consumer health and recovery. This involves consultation and liaison with other professional disciplines and nongovernmental organisations.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will need to be a Registered Nurse who holds a current practicing certificate (with at least 3 years full time post registration experience) and who has completed or is enrolled in a approved Mental Health Course.

You will use your well-developed interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to work with individuals and families for positive mental health outcomes and to foster productive working relationships across disciplines and your ability to prioritise workload and meet set timelines, whilst working under mínimal supervision.

If you have experience in conducting mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions of a complex nature with children, adolescents with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and the development of appropriate mental health care plans, in collaboration with colleagues, consumers and families, then this role is for you.

To find out the specifics, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please go to the attached role description.

**Benefits of Joining us**

Not only will you be able to use your skills and abilities in a both a challenging and rewarding role contributing to some of South Australia's most vulnerable women, babies, children and young people, you will also receive and attractive annual salary package with employer superannuation contributions and leave loading as well as the opportunity to maximise your salary through salary sacrifice arrangements.

**Application Instructions**

**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.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job ref**:829823**

**Application Closing Date**:Monday 4 March 2024**:

- 11.55PM**

**Attachments**

RN2C Registered Nurse Metro teams CAMHS 829823.pdf

Australian applicant guidelines

International applicant guidelines

WCHN Competency Framework.pdf

**Flexibility Statement**
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are en