Camhs Northern Country Dido Clinician Ahp2/rn2

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 861793

**Location**: 5001 - ADELAIDE

**Job status**: Short Term Contract

**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Various locations (Kadina [5554] Clare [5453], Pt Pirie [5540] and more)**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $** **86,950 to $100,729**:

- **Second Classification - RN/M2C - Clinical Nurse/Midwife LV2 - $84,870 to $107,249**
- **Employment Full time - Term Contract (12-month contract)**

**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.

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**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 16 (18 in some areas) for community, statewide and hospital-based services for perinatal women.

**The Opportunity**

Exciting opportunities exist within **CAMHS **to join us as a **Clinician (DIDO).**

Role Responsibilities:

- Accept accountability for the outcomes of clinical practice for children, adolescents, and their families with mental health issues.
- Address inconsistencies between practice and policy within the team.
- Deliver specialist child and adolescent mental health care to consumers with complex needs.
- Ensure optimal consumer care.
- Provide assessment, education, and counseling for optimum consumer health and recovery.
- Consult and liaise with other professional disciplines and non-governmental organizations.
- Lead and participate in quality improvement activities, and policy development within the practice setting.
- Adaptable position given expectations of DIDO and overnight outreach requirements at CAMHS regional centres.

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

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- The ability to Communicate and work with other professionals, facilitate group functions and work as a team member.
- The ability to Work with a high degree of responsibility with limited supervision and direction.
- The ability to Communicate clearly in both written and verbal forms.
- Demonstrated ability to implement clinical assessments and interventions of a complex nature in relation to children and adolescents experiencing mental health issues, and their families using a range of theoretical models.
- Knowledge of a variety of assessment and intervention models for working with children, adolescent and families.
- Experience in driving within regional areas.

**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 maximise your salary through salary sacrifice arrangements.

**Application Instructions**

**Other Important Information**

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.

Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job ref**:861793**

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