Camhs Connect Clinician

**Job no**: 811498
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Eastern, Adelaide Metro Northern, Adelaide Metro Southern, Adelaide Metro Western, Adelaide CBD
**Categories**: Nursing/Midwifery
- **Women’s and Children’s Health Network - **Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)**:

- **RN2 CAMHS Connect Clinician - North Adelaide**:

- **Total Indicative Remuneration - RN/M2C - $90,431 - $114,308 (includes award salary, superannuation, **any relevant allowance and any other monetary benefits)**
- **Full Time - Permanent - Multiple Positions**

**Overview**

The Women's and Children's Hospital provides state of the art health care for women and children in Adelaide and South Australia.

It is the state’s leading provider of specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions and SA’s largest maternity and obstetric service. It also provides important community-based services of which CAMHS is an integral part.

**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, statewide and hospital-based services for perinatal women.

CAMHS Connect is the triage service for CAMHS in SA and provides a consistent phone entry point for consumers and standardise referral management across CAMHS. Connect staff will undertake phone triage and make recommendations for ongoing mental health support where appropriate. Including to CAMHS teams and other mental health services.

**About the Role**

We have an exciting opportunity for suitably qualified and registered RN2 Mental Health Nurse to join CAMHS Connect in on ongoing capacity.

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.

You will have the day to day support of a Clinical Coordinator, Senior clinicians and colleagues.
CAMHS Connect is located in North Adelaide. Work hours are across the Monday to Friday working week, shifts between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm.

Within the framework of the National Mental Health Policy and the Standards for Mental Health Services and in a manner consistent with the stated Vision and Values of the Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN), **the CAMHS Clinician** - Mental Health Clinical Nurse, is operationally accountable to the Services Manager via the Clinical Coordinator and professionally to the Nurse Consultant, for delivering direct child and adolescent mental health care to consumers with complex needs.

We are looking for a Registered Nurse who holds a current practicing certificate (with at least 3 years full time post registration experience) and who has completed or is enrolled in a approved Mental Health Course and who has:

- Demonstrated ability to relate to people from a diverse range of cultural and social backgrounds
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to work with individuals and families for positive mental health outcomes and to foster productive working relationships across disciplines
- Demonstrated ability to work and contribute positively in a team environment
- Demonstrated initiative, flexibility and creativity
- Demonstrated commitment to providing a quality client centred service to the patient
- Ability to lead and motivate staff to achieve positive outcomes
- Ability to prioritise workload and meet set timelines, whilst working under mínimal supervision

If this sounds like you, and joining the CAMHS Connect team is the next step in your rewarding Nursing career, you are strongly encouraged to apply.

**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. work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is** - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

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 setting.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job ref: 811498**

**Enquiries**

Lee Marling

Manager, CAMHS Statewide Services

Phone: (08) 81617198

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