CAMHS PRINCIPAL LEAD PSYCHOLOGIST

at  SA Government SA HEALTH

SA HEALTH

Job reference: 870195
Location: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
Job status: Short Term Contract

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - North Adelaide (5006) - alternative locations for people based in regional or remote SA are negotiable
• Classification - AHP4 - Allied Health Professional L4 - $112,625 to $122,610 pro rata
• Part Time - 0.5 FTE - Term Contract (up until 25 June 2025)

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 clinical leadership opportunity within the CAMHS team as Principal Clinical Psychologist, where you will be responsible for:

• Professional leadership, development and coordination of Psychology services within CAMHS.
• Together with operational and executive leaders, driving strategic, service development and quality improvement priorities within Psychology, allied health and broader mental health systems.
• Providing clinical supervision, support and mentorship to AHP3 Senior Psychologists and other identified staff.
• In collaboration with managers, developing, supporting and maintaining career and professional pathways for Psychologists within CAMHS.
• Providing high quality clinical leadership through exercising professional judgement, making independent decisions and being responsible for outcomes of Psychology practice across CAMHS

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification and general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia within an Endorsed Areas of Practice - Clinical
• Approved supervisor status with the Psychology Board of Australia at all levels of supervision (primary and secondary).
• Experience in discipline-specific professional coordination, strategic consultation and liaison, and leadership.
• Demonstrated extensive experience in clinical leadership and the facilitation of service planning to ensure clinical best practice underpins the development of Psychology and child and adolescent mental health services more broadly.
• Extensive knowledge of Psychology and mental health contemporary methods, principles, practices and skills across the continuum of care in child and adolescent mental health inpatient and community settings