Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) Consultation-Liaison In reach clinician
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- Mental Health Clinician
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- REQ569459 Requisition #
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- 3 days ago Post Date
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled clinician to join an innovative and evidence based specialised child and youth mental health service providing crucial consultation, brief intervention, and liaison for young people admitted to Royal North Shore or Hornsby Hospitals.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Remuneration: Dependent on Qualification
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ569459
Salary (Per week):
Allied Health Professional (Level 4): $2,331.57 - $2,388.09
Clinical Psychologist: $2,093.71 - $2,551.93
Clinical Nurse Consultant (Grade 1): $2,428.60 - $2,478.30
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
Where you'll be working
The Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) consultation-liaison service is a new, dedicated, multi-disciplinary service providing specialist consultation and liaison for children and young people (0-17) experiencing mental health problems (including co-morbid substance use) and their parents/caregivers, admitted or presenting to Royal North Shore or Hornsby hospital paediatric wards, psychiatric emergency care centres (PECC), and other hospital settings as indicated.
What you'll be doing
The service provides assessment, in-reach consultation-liaison, short-term evidence-based interventions, and collaborative care planning with children, young people, their parents/caregivers, and other systems of support as appropriate. The service collaborates with CYMHS, drug and alcohol, and other services to facilitate early intervention, warm handover and engagement for ongoing community treatment as needed. The service also provides advice and professional development for medical, nursing, and allied health hospital staff to assist in building capacity in caring for children and young people experiencing mental health and co-morbid substance use difficulties
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Remuneration: Dependent on Qualification
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ569459
Salary (Per week):
Allied Health Professional (Level 4): $2,331.57 - $2,388.09
Clinical Psychologist: $2,093.71 - $2,551.93
Clinical Nurse Consultant (Grade 1): $2,428.60 - $2,478.30
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
Where you'll be working
The Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) consultation-liaison service is a new, dedicated, multi-disciplinary service providing specialist consultation and liaison for children and young people (0-17) experiencing mental health problems (including co-morbid substance use) and their parents/caregivers, admitted or presenting to Royal North Shore or Hornsby hospital paediatric wards, psychiatric emergency care centres (PECC), and other hospital settings as indicated.
What you'll be doing
The service provides assessment, in-reach consultation-liaison, short-term evidence-based interventions, and collaborative care planning with children, young people, their parents/caregivers, and other systems of support as appropriate. The service collaborates with CYMHS, drug and alcohol, and other services to facilitate early intervention, warm handover and engagement for ongoing community treatment as needed. The service also provides advice and professional development for medical, nursing, and allied health hospital staff to assist in building capacity in caring for children and young people experiencing mental health and co-morbid substance use difficulties
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and experience as per clinical discipline. Full AHPRA registration or a Social Worker eligible for membership of AASW. Allied Health Professionals will need minimum experience as a Level 2. Clinical Nurse Consultant requires minimum five years full time post graduate experience with 3 years full time equivalent experience in Mental Health. In addition, must have an approved post graduate qualification. Clinical Psychologist must hold a Masters degree or higher.
- Experience and knowledge of assessment, formulation, crisis management and effective care planning with children and young people experiencing mental health problems (including co-morbid substance use).
- Demonstrated skills and ability to provide clinical consultancy, effective communication, partnership development and negotiation with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
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For role related queries or questions contact Diana Simes on Diana.Simes@health.nsw.gov.au
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy . You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
Applications Close: 30 April 2025
