Mental Health Triage Clinician

**Job no**: 820608
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Eastern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health, Mental Health, Nursing/Midwifery
- **Central Adelaide Local Health Network**:

- **Mental Health Services, Glenside**:

- **Salary RN-2 $79,998 - $101,120**:

- **Salary AHP-2 $85,665 - $99,241**:

- **Permanent full-time and part-time positions**

**RN-2 **The CN provides mental health nursing care in a variety of settings across the MHCP. The CN’s practice has been consolidated by experience and/or further study. CNs are expected to demonstrate ongoing practice development from competent to proficient practitioners. The CN accepts accountability for their own practice standards, activities delegated to others and the guidance and development of less experienced staff. The CN role is predominantly clinical in nature; however CNs may be assigned appropriate portfolios consistent with their career development plan and MHCP priorities. CNs may be required to be involved in clinical teaching and/or research; wider or external work on complex or MHCP wide projects such as clinical protocols, guidelines and / or process mapping and / or specific activity and / or portfolio responsibility.

**AHP-2** The Mental Health Clinical Program works with youth, adults and older people and provides a stepped range of services encompassing emergency, acute inpatient, sub-acute, community and rehabilitation services. The Mental Health Clinical Program works in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders including consumers, the community, professional groups such as General Practitioners, non-government organisations and other government departments.

The Mental Health Triage Service (MHTS) is a metropolitan wide collaboration with SA Ambulance Service (SAAS). It receives and triages telephone referrals from consumers and concerned family or community members who contact the service for emergency mental health care. It has a role in monitoring mental health activity and coordination across South Australia.

See role descriptions for qualifications.

**Benefits of Working at CALHN**
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, and a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Central Adelaide Local Health Network.
- Salary packaging: Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
- Diversity and inclusion: CALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
- Flexible working arrangements: Voluntary flexible working provisions have been introduced to enable CALHN employees to better balance work, personal life and family commitments.
- Opportunity for movement across the SA Health system: There are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and your career at one of our many metropolitan or regional sites

**About CALHN**

We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.

Each day presents our nearly 15,000 employees with an opportunity to perform at their best, not because they are expected to, but because they want to as they work together to achieve our strategic ambitions. Together we’re committed to delivering the very best in care for the community in line with our organisation’s values.

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan area.

Our Statewide clinical services include BreastScreen SA, SA Pathology, SA Medical Imaging and SA Pharmacy. Community health services include SA Dental (including School Dental Services), SA Prison Health and Donate Life SA.

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

In addition to the annual salary package, we also offer salary sacrifice benefits, employer superannuation contributions and leave loading.

COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement under the Public Health Act 2011 (Healthcare Setting Workers Vaccination) (COVID-19) to work in SA Health/health care.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job ref: 820608**

**Enquiries to**

Michael Baldock Telephone: 8222 6000

**Application Closing Date**

11:55