Camhs Forensic Service Clinician

**SA Health**

**Job reference**: 831561

**Location**: 5085 - ENFIELD

**Job status**: Ongoing

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

- **CAMHS Forensic Service Clinician - Enfield**:

- **Salary - RN2 - $82,398 - $104,154 ; **AHP2 - $85,665 - $99,241 - Part Time - Ongoing/ Permanent - RN2/ AHP2**
- On top of this, as an employee of Women's and Children's Health Network, you will have access to Salary Sacrifice benefits with _MAXXIA_ which allows for generous salary sacrifice arrangements each FBT year as a special benefit for employees of the local Health Networks. A Meal Entertainment allowance per FBT year can also be salary sacrificed out of your pre-tax income to cover costs over and above the Everyday living expenses benefit._

**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, statewide and hospital-based services for perinatal women.

CAMHS Connect is the triage service for CAMHS in SA and provides a consistent phone entry point for consumers and standardise referral management across CAMHS. Connect staff will undertake phone triage and make recommendations for ongoing mental health support where appropriate. Including to CAMHS teams and other mental health services.

**The Opportunity**

We have an exciting multiclass opportunity for suitably qualified and registered **RN2 Clinical Mental Health Nurse** and **AHP2 Multi-classification** **(Social Work, Occupational Therapy and Psychology)** to join CAMHS in on **ongoing** capacity.

The **CAMHS Clinician - Clinical Mental Health Nurse**, Forensic Services accepts accountability for the outcomes of clinical practice for children, adolescents and their families with mental health issues involved in the forensic system and for addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy. The CAMHS Clinician - Clinical Mental Health Nurse, Forensic Services is responsible and accountable for their own practice standards and activities they delegate to others.

The **CAMHS Clinician - Forensic Services** is responsible for ensuring optimal consumer care. Addressing cultural safety and undertaking culturally informed engagement, assessment, education/advocacy, counselling and group work are considered essential components of care which is directed towards consumer health and recovery.

**About You**

To be eligible for RN2, you should be Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate. Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice. Demonstrated ability to conduct mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions of a complex nature with children, adolescents with eating disorders and /OR emotional and behavioural difficulties.

For AHP2 Clinician, you should demonstrate ability to integrate Aboriginal cultural experiences, philosophy and practice particularly as it relates to the provision of social and emotional/mental health services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children, young people and their families. Have extensive clinical experience in the treatment and management of complex child and adolescent mental health issues.

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