Clinical Services Manager

**Job no**: 877902
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Child Protection Service - Salisbury**:

- **Salary**: $114,314 - $124,449 p.a. - AHP4 - Permanent Full-Time**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Clinical Services Manager looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Clinical Services Manager within the Child Protection Service.

Reporting to the Director, Child Protection Services (AHP5).

Provide professional leadership for the Allied Health staff within the Child Protection Service.

Provide operational leadership for the hospital based and ambulatory Child Protection Services.

Responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of strategies to meet the health needs of the NALHN’s population consistent with the SA Health Care Plan.

Contribute to NALHN’s achievement of its strategic and operational objectives, performance agreements, targets and key performance indicators and support core principles of consumer participation, clinical effectiveness, workplace innovation and management of risk.

Accountable for:

- Management and coordination and delivery of clinical practice, clinical supervision and education and training.
- Facilitation, development, and coordination of resources both within and external to CPS to support a high-quality clinical practice and a client centred care service.
- Provision of high-level professional expert advice and information to the Director in relation to policy or system changes/enhancement and to CPS staff in relation to research, teaching and other issues relevant to CPS/NALHN objectives.
- Contribute as a member of the management group to strategic planning processes and takes a lead role in the development and implementation of organisational policies and procedures.
- The development, provision, and management of a quality, cost efficient and integrated Child Protection Service.
- Undertake the management of complex projects involving several personnel from the Child Protection Service and/or the child protection system.
- Contributing to the financial and workforce management of the Child Protection Service.
- Contributing to the delivery and management of efficient work practices and culture of continued quality improvement.
- Evaluating service effectiveness through monitoring, analysing and evaluating current systems and consulting with the Director, management team and broader clinical and administrative CPS staff team about recommendations for system modification or change.

To be eligible for this position,