Do you thrive in work that combines clinical expertise and service development. Look no further!
The Children's Health Queensland CYMHS - Acute Response Team is seeking dedicated individuals who have experience working in mental health with children and young people.
Your expertise matters!
Why Choose Us?

• Rewarding Work: Make a difference in the lives of young people and their families.
• Professional Growth: Work across Clinical Liaison and Emergency areas within a specialist child and youth role
• Variety of Experience: Deliver a combination of clinical and non-clinical work.

If you're ready to contribute to a brighter future, apply today.
About Child & Youth Mental Health Service
The Integrated Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) provides complex secondary and tertiary level health care. CYMHS offers specialised mental health services for families with children and young people (birth to 18 years) who experience severe and complex mental health problems, and where their needs cannot be met by other services.
CYMHS provides a comprehensive, recovery-orientated mental healthcare service that aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their carer networks. Recovery principles are embedded into service delivery, culture, and practice, providing consumers and their families, in collaboration with other services, access and referral to a range of programs that will support and sustain recovery.
CYMHS combines hospital and community-based facilities to provide free consultation, assessment and treatment of children and young people experiencing serious mental health disorders and problems with their carer network. CHQ CYMHS acknowledges that working in CYMHS is emotionally demanding work and supports staff well-being and self-care at an organisational and individual level.
About CHQ
Children's Health Queensland is a specialist statewide hospital and health service dedicated to caring for children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
We are committed to collaborating with all of our healthcare partners, most importantly families, to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality patient and family-centred care.
A recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, education and research, Children's Health Queensland delivers a full range of clinical services, tertiary level care and health promotion programs.

Your Opportunity:
The purpose of this role is to within business hours at TPCH provide clinical expertise and consultancy through advanced clinical leadership relevant to the speciality of Child and Youth Mental Health. The Clinical Nurse Consultant provides direct and indirect care as required and works in collaboration with health care teams in provision of safe quality healthcare through exemplary clinical nursing standards of practice for the specialty of Child and Youth Mental Health.
The CNC provides mental health assessment, intervention and liaison for children and young people and their families while they are in the emergency department and services inpatients who are admitted to TPCH within the paediatric inpatient unit.
What CHQ HHS can offer
Apart from contributing to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, you will also benefit from a competitive remuneration package and a working environment which embraces professional development, builds capabilities and supports staff to maximise their health and wellbeing. Additional benefits include:

• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work/life balance, variety and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Some roles within Queensland Health are designated as 'Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk roles'. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. Please refer to the attached Role Description for more information and what requirements may exist.
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