SENIOR CLINICIAN CAMHS DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICE

at  SA Government SA HEALTH

SA HEALTH

Job reference: 889800
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 Service (CAMHS), North Adelaide (5006)
• Salary
• Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 - $104,180 to $111,746
• Part Time - Term Contract (6-month contract)

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 Senior Clinician - Developmental Disability Service, where you will be responsible for:

• Providing clinical expertise for children, adolescents, and their families with mental health issues and developmental disability-related health concerns.
• Delivering 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

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification for your respective discipline (please see Role Description for further information).
• 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