Camhs Connect Clinician

**Job no**: 898902
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide CBD
**Categories**: Mental Health, Nursing/Midwifery
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) - North Adelaide (5006)**:

- **Salary**- **Classification - RN/M2C - Clinical Nurse/Midwife LV2 - $87,416 to $110,497 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits.**
- **Employment Full time - Term Contract (temporary up until to 26 Dec 2025)**

**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.

Our services include:

- Triage of mental health difficulties
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Individual and family therapy
- Group programmes
- Information provision to parents/carers and key partners such as schools, GPs, hospitals, government and nongovernment organisations

**The Opportunity**

Exciting opportunities exist within **CAMHS Connect**to join us as **CAMHS Clinician** on a **full-time** basis, in an **temporary**capacity until **26 Dec 2025.**

In this role, you will:

- Provide clinical expertise for children, adolescents and their families with mental health issues.
- Actively participate in monitoring client care plans and clinical review programmes/audits to ensure quality patient outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with consumers in the development of individual care/treatment plans using a recovery framework.
- Promote access and equity of services for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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

**About You**

As a Clinician with mental health experience, you will strive toward a reflective, systemically and dynamically informed contribution to team activities.

All activities will be undertaken with a common goal; offering a child, young person and family an experience of being understood, contained and supported to cope as they move into appropriate further mental health care.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- **Registered as a Nurse by the Nursing/Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and who holds a current practicing certificate. Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice.**:

- Registered Nurse with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience
- Demonstrated ability to conduct mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions of a complex nature with children, adolescents with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
- Experience in the development of appropriate mental health care plans, in collaboration with colleagues, consumers and families.
- Experience in problem solving, negotiation and conflict management and demonstrated ability to work reflectively will colleagues and under pressure.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- 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.)
- 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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