About the Opportunity
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS team as a Senior Clinician - Developmental Disability Service. In this role, you will be responsible for providing clinical expertise and delivering advanced services to children, adolescents, and their families with mental health issues and developmental disabilities.
Your Responsibilities
* Providing 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:
* An appropriate degree or equivalent qualification for your respective discipline
* 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
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.
What WCHN Can Offer You
* Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility
* A salary package with 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
* Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
* Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program