Eligibility
: Open to Everyone
1. Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), CAMHS Connect (Triage) - North Adelaide 5006
2. Salary Classification - RN/M3 - Registered Nurse/Midwife LV 3 - $117,997 to $123,272
3. Employment Full time - Term Contract (temporary up to June 2024)
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 a suitably qualified and registered RN3 Senior Mental Health Nurse to join CAMHS Connect on a short term contract, working in a full time capacity.
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.
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.
The CAMHS Connect Nurse Consultant provides clinical mental health nursing expertise for infants, children, adolescents, women and families with mental health issues. Employees classified at this level are experts within their area and stream of practice and have a significant degree of autonomy and decision making.
To find out the specifics, including the key selection criteria and special conditions, please go to the attached role description.
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, but 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.
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.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.
Check(s)
4. DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
5. National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position ()
Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)
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 : 838116