Senior Clinician

• Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), North Adelaide (5006)
• Salary
• Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 - $108,347.00 to $116, Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Part Time - Term Contract (12-month contract)

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS team as a Senior Clinician - Developmental Disability Service, where you will be responsible for:

• Providing clinical expertise for children, adolescents, and their families with mental health issues and developmental disability-related health concerns.
• Delivering direct expert care to individual clients or groups of clients.
• Offering consultation and support to other CAMHS teams and staff.
• Providing clinical leadership to multidisciplinary staff.
• Delivering advanced clinical services to the child and adolescent mental health population.
• Assuming a clinical/professional leadership role within the team.
• Undertaking professional supervision of staff within their team or across other teams.
• Contributing to quality and safety improvements in services across CAMHS and within specific service areas.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification for your respective discipline (please see Role Description for further information).
• Demonstrated experience in developmental disability and child and adolescent mental health work and having a wide range of emotional and behavioural issues.
• Proven leadership experience, including the ability to coordinate workflow and the work of others, ensure that work meets required standards, motivate other professional staff and foster team member participation in decision making.
• Demonstrated highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to apply specialist skills in resolving complex clinical problems.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team, across teams and with a range of agencies.
• Excellent liaison and presentation skills which includes an ability to communicate with all levels of management and staff, administrative and clinical and with key personnel from other agencies.

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.
• 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.

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

Callum Deakin

Position: Medical Unit Head, CAMHS Statewide Services

Phone: Tracey Dryden-Mead, Callum Deakin & Agnik Sarkar

E-mail:

Application Closing Date: 15 September 2025 – 11:55pm

Useful Links

AHP3 - CAMHS - Senior Clinician - Role Description -