Clinical Nurse Consultant - Head to Health Kids - CAMHS (528420)(North)
Australia, Tas
Jan 3, 2025
Our aim:
We are seeking a passionate and dedicated professional to establish and lead the Head to Health Kids Tas Service multidisciplinary team in Northern Tasmania. The senior clinician will have a passion for working collaboratively with existing child and family services to deliver evidence-based early interventions. The Clinical Lead will establish and lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver secondary level mental health assessment and intervention for infants, children, and their families and caregivers, experiencing emerging complexity regarding emotional, social, relational, and behavioural functioning.
The role will:
Coordinate and plan the establishment of a regional H2HK Service
Oversee place-based operation of the North H2HK Tas Service, operationally supported as part of the regional CAMHS
Facilitate extensive cross-agency and cross-sector engagement, co-planning, and continuing service coordination and integration
Cover the delivery of a range of specialist and coordinated early interventions, in close partnership with the CFLC service setting, School Professional Support Services and other relevant services
Provide clinical leadership to a H2HK multidisciplinary team.
Details of Appointment
Fixed term full time day worker position (with on call) working 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible until 30 June 2026.
Salary:
$114,851 - $121,886 per annum + 11.5% superannuation + access to salary packaging
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:
Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse and possess specialist tertiary graduate or post graduate mental health/psychiatric nursing qualification; or completed, prior to the transfer of nurse education to the tertiary sector, an accredited hospital-based program that led to registration as a psychiatric nurse by the relevant nurse regulatory authority within Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the United Kingdom.
Current Working with Children Registration
Desirable criteria:
A minimum of 3 years current post graduate experience in child, adolescent and/or youth mental health or relevant field
Training in relevant and appropriate evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are developmentally appropriate such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Family Therapy or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Current Driver's License.
Note:
The Head of the State Service has determined that the person nominated for this job is to satisfy a pre-employment check before taking up the appointment, on promotion or transfer.
For more information
Marc Nicklason
Position: A/Team Leader – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services North
Phone: 6777 2277
Email: ******
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