Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Permanent
**Classification**: Nurse Practitioner - Registered Nurse Level 4 Grade 2 (P38028)
**Salary**:$147, 215** (Plus 11.5% Super)**
**Location**:Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
**Section**: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
**Closing Date**: 25 September 2024

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.- Flexible working conditions.- 11.5% Superannuation.- To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)

**About the Role**:
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides assessment and treatment for children and young people who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health issues.

The Nurse Practitioner will function in an extended clinical practice role, including: advanced clinical assessments, supportive clinical management including psychopharmacological interventions, and referral of young people experiencing mental health difficulties, utilising evidence-based practice.

The Nurse Practitioner is expected to be actively involved in clinical leadership, professional development and supervision, participate in quality initiatives, and contribute to the multidisciplinary team. Additionally, the role is required to be available to work within all program areas of CAMHS, as service needs arise.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the _Position Description_._
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.- Comply with CHS credentialing and Scope of Clinical Practice requirements for nurse practitioners.**To Apply**:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

**Our **Vision**: creating exceptional health care together
**Our** **Role**: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
**Our **Values**: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
- Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution._
- North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities._

**Job**: Registered Nurses & Midwives

**Salary Range**: 147,215.00 - 147,215.00

**Closing Date**: 25/Sep/2024, 8:59:00 AM