• Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands, Amata 0872)
• Salary:
  • Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 - $101,124 to $108,467
  • Second Classification - RN/M3 - Registered Nurse/Midwife L3 - $114,560 to $119,682
  • (Plus Salary Sacrifice benefits with MAXXIA)
  • In addition, an allowance of up to 30% is payable for time worked on APY Lands
• Employment Full time - Ongoing Permanent
• Government employee housing provided

Overview

• Are you a highly motivated individual interested in living and working in remote Aboriginal communities?
• Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands encompasses a number of communities, including Amata, located approximately 115 km due south of Uluru in South Australia and Pukatja in the Eastern Musgrave Ranges, 30 km South of the Northern Territory border.
• We are looking for a Senior Mental Health Clinician to join the CAMHS team and deliver specialised support to the APY Lands communities.
• You will be part of an innovative and friendly team, where you can lead and make a real difference every day.
• We encourage you to enquire about our generous monetary allowances (up to 30%), government employee housing and salary sacrificing benefits.

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network provides state of the art health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We are the state’s leading provider of specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions as well as being SA’s largest maternity and obstetric service.

Our community-based services also reach hundreds of thousands of vulnerable babies, children and young people, their families and communities across South Australia through our various services and programs in areas such as our Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth Health and Aboriginal Health services.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a free community-based tertiary mental health service provided through the WCHN across South Australia, providing care to those with severe and/or complex mental health needs. CAMHS provides services to: infants / children / young people up to 18 (16 in some areas) for community, statewide and hospital-based services for perinatal women.

The Opportunity

As part of our commitment to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal women, children and families, we are looking for suitably qualified and experienced staff to provide mental health and wellbeing services to babies, children, young people and their families living in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yanunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

WCHN’s new Integrated Model of Care led by CAMHS is designed to be responsive to the social and cultural considerations that are impacting the health of Anangu people who live in the APY Land communities.

About You

As the Senior Mental Health Clinician you will

• Work as a part of a multidisciplinary team providing a service to communities on the APY Lands.
• Take the cultural guidance and direction from the Aboriginal staff within the integrated team providing Mental health services to babies/children/youths and their families/communities on the APY Lands.
• Support the learning and development of Anangu to one day deliver and drive their own health outcomes.

To find out the specifics, including the key selection criteria and special conditions, please see the role descriptions for each role via clicking Apply Now.

Benefits of Joining us

Not only will you be able to use your skills and abilities in a both a challenging and rewarding role contributing to some of South Australia's most vulnerable women, babies, children and young people, you will also receive and attractive annual salary package with employer superannuation contributions and leave loading as well as the opportunity to maximise your salary through salary sacrifice arrangements.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.

Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.

Check(s)

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances).

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. 

Need to speak to someone about this role, please contact: Judy O'Sullivan, Position: CAMHS Community Operations Manager, E-mail: Judy.O'[email protected] using the subject line: Senior Mental Health Clinican - APY Lands enquiry via EthicalJobs, Phone: 81617357

Need to speak to someone about culturally specific enquiries and support, please contact: Lyn Jones, Position: Principal Aboriginal Lead, [email protected], Phone: 0407 615054.