Work Type: Fixed Term - Full Time, Fixed Term - Part Time, Permanent - Full Time, Permanent - Part Time
Closing Date: 2025-06-27 4:00 PM
Bring your specialised skillset and consider joining a dynamic and nurturing team environment!
About Our Team:
Our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Western Australia offer support, advice and treatment to children and adolescents from birth to 18 years who are experiencing mental health challenges.
Our service helps children grow and thrive and we offer these same opportunities to the nurses who join our team. Our team-oriented approach allows for extensive clinical upskilling, and leadership development opportunities for nurses of all levels.
About the Role:
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will lead and enable nursing staff to provide comprehensive and evidence-based nursing care to patients. You will use your problem-solving, and therapeutic skills to influence, manage, and co-ordinate patient care, as well as provide clinical leadership and consultancy to other health professionals in the broader multidisciplinary team. You will lead quality improvement and risk management initiatives and contribute to standards and policies
What you will bring:
- Preferably five or more years of experience as a Registered Nurse in Mental Health.
- Specialist nursing experience relevant to the service area of preference (e.g. Community based services, Acute Inpatient, Outpatient Day Program).
- Experience working with children and adolescents is essential.
- Demonstrated significant leadership ability, and able to provide specialised knowledge as an education resource to patients, families and other health professionals.
- Advanced problem-solving and therapeutic skills that influence, manage and co-ordinate patient care.
Registration as a Registered Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia is required.
Eligibility to Apply: Australian citizenship or permanent residency is an essential requirement for applicants to be considered for permanent positions in the public sector. Visa sponsorship for eligible international applicants that meet immigration requirements may also be considered.
**Overseas applicants need to have completed endorsement of their nursing qualifications through the and must include this documentation with their application.
This position is subject to a Western Australian Working with Children (WWC) Check. For further information please refer to the WWC website at: Other Conditions: WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility. WA Health policies require applicants to undertake criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process. Referees may also be asked to comment on an applicant’s integrity and past demonstration of ethical behaviour.
About our Directorates
– Our community services offers mental health assessment and multidisciplinary intervention for children and young people up to the age of 18 years. – Our Specialist Services and Day Programs consists of Complex Attention and Hyperactivity Disorder Service, Multisystemic Therapy, Pathways and Touchstone. These programs support children and young people who have complex mental health needs. – Our acute mental health services, based at one of our hospital's in Perth has a mental health inpatient unit (Ward 5A), Paediatric Psychiatric Inpatient In-Reach Team (PPIRT), Eating Disorder Service and Gender Diversity Service.
