CAMHS COUNTRY NORTHERN - MUTLI DISCIPLINE AHP2 CLINICIAN - PT AUGUSTA

at  SA Government SA HEALTH

SA HEALTH

Job reference: 867822
Location: 5700 - PORT AUGUSTA
Job status: Ongoing

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Port Augusta (5700)
• Salary
• Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $86,950 to $100,729
• Full time - Ongoing Permanent

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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We currently have an exciting opportunity to join CAMHS as a Clinician, where you will be responsible for:

• Provide clinical expertise for children, adolescents, and families with mental health issues.
• Offer direct expert care to individuals or groups and provide clinical leadership.
• Ensure quality services for those experiencing complex social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties.
• Ensure optimal consumer care through assessment, education, counseling, and group work.
• Collaborate with other professional disciplines and organizations.
• Utilize clinical knowledge and experience to support staff and contribute to research and policy development

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification within your allied health Discipline (Refer to role descriptions for further detail.)
• Demonstrated ability to carry out assessments and interventions of a complex nature with emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, and their families using a range of evidence-based theoretical models in assessment and intervention.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the theory and practice of clinical work within the individual’s professional specialty area, including group work.
• Ability to communicate and work with other professionals, facilitate group functions, and work as a team member.
• Ability to work with a high degree of responsibility with limited supervision and direction.
• Knowledge of the impact of government policy affecting the area of child, adolescent, and family health and welfare services