Supporting children and young people through crisis with expert care
Remuneration: $126,524 - $152,992 per annum (dependent on qualifications) + superannuation + salary packaging.
Location: Wallsend Campus.
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time – Until February 2027.
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2, Counsellor Level 4, Occupational Therapist Level 4, Social Worker Level 4, Clinical Psychologist.
Requisition ID: REQ666031.
Applications Close: Sunday 14th June 2026.
About the Role
The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Mental Health Response Team (Safeguards) is a community based, rapid response and flexible, short‐term, multidisciplinary service, delivering skilled, evidence‐based interventions to resolve mental health crisis with young people and their families. The service includes comprehensive assessment and brief interventions, such as distress tolerance strategies, safety planning and service navigation / linkage.
You will plan, coordinate and implement in‐depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge within Safeguards Child & Adolescent Mental Health Response Team; to provide high quality, innovative, best‐practice care to children and adolescents aged 0‐17 years, experiencing acute mental health distress.
You will provide expert clinical support to the team under the leadership of the Safeguards Team Leader and Safeguards Psychiatrist, while supporting clinical governance, management of workflow, consistent with NSW Health, and HNE Health policies, procedures, and standards.
This role includes responsibilities for consulting across the district in the area of expertise, provision of supervision, leadership of quality improvement initiatives, change management, leadership in evaluation and reporting on services, development of service improvements, development of education tools and the teaching of other health care colleagues and students on clinical placement.
Responsibilities
* Plan, coordinate, and implement clinical expertise and specialised knowledge within the Safeguards Child & Adolescent Mental Health Response Team.
* Provide expert clinical support under the leadership of the Safeguards Team Leader and Safeguards Psychiatrist.
* Support clinical governance, workflow management, consistent with NSW Health and HNE Health policies, procedures, and standards.
* Consult across the district; provide supervision; lead quality improvement initiatives; manage change; evaluate and report on services; develop service improvements; create education tools; teach health care colleagues and students on clinical placement.
Qualifications
* Must hold a degree in Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Clinical Psychology or an equivalent qualification that provides eligibility or membership of the relevant professional association/full registration through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
* Eligible to drive in NSW.
Benefits
Benefits include:
* Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
* Proximity to shopping and other services
* ADO's each month (for full‐time employees)
* Salary packaging options
* Fitness Passport
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
* Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non‐clinical and clinical professionals
Additional Information
* To be eligible for employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or hold an appropriate visa that allows you to live and work in Australia. Employment of a temporary visa holder will only be offered in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.
* An eligibility list will be created for future temporary full or part‐time vacancies.
* We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
* Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
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