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The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
Consultation Liaison Mental Health Clinician
Randwick
FULL TIME
September 23, 2024
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 30 June 2025
Position Classification: Health Clinician Lvl 3 including classifications of Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapist Lvl 3, Physiotherapist Lvl 3 and Social Worker Lvl 3
Remuneration: 105553 - 128653 full time equivalent base salary range (excludes super, leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: up to 38
Requisition ID: REQ522004
Position Classification: Health Clinician Lvl 3 including classifications of Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapist Lvl 3, Physiotherapist Lvl 3 and Social Worker Lvl 3
Remuneration: 105553 - 128653 full time equivalent base salary range (excludes super, leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: up to 38
Requisition ID: REQ522004
Sydney Children's Hospitals Network is the largest paediatric health care entity in Australia. We care for thousands of children each year in our hospitals and in their homes — with one purpose in mind — to help young people live their healthiest lives.
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Additional Information:
- An eligibility list may be created for future temporary full or part time vacancies.
- This position is full time; however, part time/job share arrangements may also be considered.
What you'll be doing
The Consultation Liaison Mental Health Clinician will provide high quality recovery orientated, trauma informed support in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to children and young people aged up to 18 years accessing mental health services within Sydney Children’s Hospital (SCH) at Randwick. The Mental Health Clinician will work within the Consultation Liaison team which provides services across inpatient, outpatient, Emergency Department and outreach services, including Safe Haven.
The Consultation Liaison Mental Health Clinician will work within the framework of their professional scope to provide specialist, patient-centred and compassionate care to children, young people and their carers presenting with mental health concerns and/or conditions to SCH services.
The Consultation Liaison Mental Health Clinician will ensure all activities are underpinned by Recovery Orientated Practices, Trauma Informed Care, Strengths based approaches and family-centred care.
The Consultation Liaison Mental Health Clinician will ensure all activities are underpinned by Recovery Orientated Practices, Trauma Informed Care, Strengths based approaches and family-centred care.
Other activities may include safety, recovery and wellness planning, individual support, advocacy, collaborative identification of community support, follow up and support to access other services to address situational distress.
- Tertiary qualifications, professional registration/membership as per essential requirements.
- Post graduate experience in delivery of suicide prevention support services with focus on situational distress, recovery orientated service provision, trauma informed care, safety planning and managing risk.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including providing leadership to Suicide Prevention Workers (peer & clinical) and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.
- Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, including clinical services throughout all organisational levels to enhance pathways and transfer between care settings.
- Ability to provide in-depth advice and education to enhance service delivery and to guide and support others in providing service excellence in suicide prevention, with the capacity to provide clinical supervision to other staff.
- The ability to initiate, lead, complete co-design quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff.
- Demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning.
- Strong computer literacy skills in Microsoft Office and experience with relevant Health related computer programs
SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity - we acknowledge the vibrancy that a diverse workforce brings to enhance both our workplace culture and our service delivery to children, young people and their families and carers. We encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply. If you identify as an Indigenous Australian or as a person with a disability, please contact us if you would like some more information about our recruitment process.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families that access the services we provide at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. Aboriginal job applicants are encouraged to visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application.
Please refer to the Application Guide and NSW Policy Directive PD2024_015 Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases for vaccination requirements.
This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC) issued by the Office of the Children’s Guardian. For more information on how to apply for the clearance, please visit the Office of the Children’s Guardian Website https://ocg.nsw.gov.au/
NSWHealth is committed to child safety in line with the Child Safe Standards. SCHN is committed to maintaining a child safe culture that upholds the rights of children and young people. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported, and are included in their care. Existing staff of SCHN and those seeking employment are required to prioritise the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people in their care and take action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
Applicants holding visas with working rights may be considered for temporary appointment (up to the expiry date of their visa) where no suitable local applicant is identified.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
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For role related queries or questions contact Michelle Jackson on michelle.jackson1@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 3/10/2024
1) Click here for the Position Description
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Michelle Jackson on michelle.jackson1@health.nsw.gov.au
If you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander wishing to apply for this role and want to speak with an Aboriginal person/representative from the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network please contact Wayne Dargan on wayne.dargan@health.nsw.gov.au
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