Senior Mental Health Nurse

• Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - CAMHS Connect (Triage), Kaurna Land; North Adelaide (5006)
• Salary
• Classification - RN/M3 - Registered Nurse/Midwife LV 3 - $125,183 to $130,779 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Part Time (0.4 FTE) - Term Contract

About The Opportunity
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the
CAMHS Connect
team as a
Nurse Consultant (Senior Nurse),
where you will be responsible for:

• Provides clinical leadership and mental health expertise through therapeutic triage and collaborative treatment planning for CAMHS clients.
• Shares day-to-day clinical leadership of CAMHS Connect with other senior staff.
• Ensures best practice standards for CAMHS intake and consults on complex cases.
• Works collaboratively with government, non-government, private providers, consumers, and carers.
• Accountable for delivering high-quality care aligned with Department of Health and WCHN standards.
• Accountable for team outcomes, addressing practice-policy gaps, and fostering positive team culture to enhance client outcomes.
• Accountable for own mental health and nursing practice, clinical outcomes, professional advice, care delegations, and ensuring policy compliance.

About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate, enrolled in an approved Mental Health course or holds a qualification in mental health practice.
• Registered Nurse and or Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience.
• Demonstrated competence in delivering proficient and comprehensive mental health nursing assessment and direct clinical services to children, young people and their families experiencing complex, acute or chronic mental illness/ trauma or a wide range of emotional and behavioural disturbance.
• Effective leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability in the leadership and facilitation of change management.

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• 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. Click here more information
• 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 to and from the Women's and Children's Hospital. Note: Does not apply to network community sites.
• 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.

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 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.

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.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions
You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

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.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Enquiries
Lynne Whitcher

Position: Administration Coordinator

Phone:

E-mail:

Application Closing Date
:
25/08/2025
– 11:55pm

Useful Links
RN3 - CAMHS Connect - Senior Mental Health