Child and Adolescent Health Service > Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Work Type: Fixed Term - Full Time, Fixed Term - Part Time, Permanent - Full Time, Permanent - Part Time
Closing Date: 2025-01-31 4:00 PM
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 services 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 5 or more years of experience as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, applicants with differing work and lived experience may also be considered.
- 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 also preferred.
- Demonstrated 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.
