Emergency Mental Health Nurse Consultant

at  SA Health

Job no: 891539
Work type: Full time
Location: Various

Categories: Nursing/Midwifery

• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), North Adelaide (5006)

• Salary

• • Classification - RN/M3 - Registered Nurse/Midwife LV 3 - $125,183 to $130,779
• 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 the CAMHS team as a Nurse Consultant, where you will be responsible for:

• Providing clinical mental health nursing expertise for children, adolescents, peri-natal women, and their families with mental health issues, in line with the National Mental Health Policy and Standards for Mental Health Services.
• Delivering specialist mental health nursing assessment, risk assessment, referral, and clinical intervention for consumers with complex or immediate mental health needs.
• Ensuring optimal consumer care through direct and comprehensive mental health assessment, individual follow-up, and referral of mental health consumers within the Paediatric Emergency Department and inpatient areas of WCH.
• Providing assessment, education, therapeutic intervention, and referral or care transition to support consumer health and recovery.
• Consulting and liaising with other professional disciplines and non-governmental organizations.
• Offering direction, support, orientation, and education to nursing staff and other staff using expert clinical knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Leading and participating in action research projects, quality improvement activities, and policy development within the practice setting

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse by the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate. Must be enrolled in an approved Mental Health Course or hold a qualification in mental health practice.
• Registered Nurses with at least 3 years post registration experience
• Demonstrated competence in delivering proficient and comprehensive mental health nursing assessment, risk assessment and care planning/referral to, children and young people experiencing complex, acute or chronic mental illness/ trauma or a wide range of emotional and behavioural disturbance
• Effective Leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet set timeline