Principal Social Worker Camhs

**Job no**: 878069
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide CBD
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), North Adelaide (5006)**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - AHP4 - Allied Health Professional L4 - $114,314 to $124,449**
- **Part Time (0.7 FTE) - Ongoing Permanent**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the **CAMHS** team as a** Principal Social Worker, **where you will:

- Provide clinical governance and leadership for Social Work services across Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
- Collaborate with CAMHS Executive and key stakeholders on service development initiatives.
- Lead relevant quality improvement initiatives.
- Facilitate access to professional training and clinical support activities.
- Work in partnership with key stakeholders on service quality and workforce development.
- Act as a consultant and professional advisor on Social Work professional issues.
- Consult with staff on complex clinical cases and manage a complex clinical case load, as appropriate.
- Provide clinical supervision and support to AHP3 Senior Social Workers, other Social Workers, and designated staff across CAMHS.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
- Ability to provide discipline-specific professional coordination, strategic consultation and liaison, and leadership across CAMHS to address clinical matters affecting Social Work service planning decisions, policy and workforce.
- High level leadership and interpersonal skills to build the trust, cooperation and commitment of CAMHS and Health Network staff to work together to achieve change and organisational objectives
- Demonstrated extensive experience in clinical leadership and the facilitation of service planning to ensure clinical best practice underpins the development of Social Work services.
- Demonstrated extensive clinical experience in collaborative development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of planned interventions for infants, children, young people and their families with high or complex mental health problems.

**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.)
- Free Public Transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital Workers.
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

You may be eligible for financial support if you are considering relocating from interstate or overseas. Please speak to the enquiries person of the role on offer to find out more.

***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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***Special Conditions**

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

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***Application Instructions**

**Other Important Information**

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