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• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, North Adelaide 5006
• Salary – RN/M3, $130,190.00 - $136,010.00 + 12% Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Part Time (0.6FTE), Temporary (fixed term) contract up until 5 May 2027

About WCHN
Join the Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN), South Australia’s leading provider of care for women, babies, children and young people. We’re shaping the future of healthcare through compassion, innovation and excellence — with our communities at the heart of everything we do.

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Access to salary packaging benefits of up to $9,010 each FBT year for living expenses (e.g. mortgage, rent, utilities, groceries), plus an additional $2,650 each FBT year for meal entertainment expenses.
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Free public transport to and from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital for SA Health metropolitan hospital staff (excludes network community sites).
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program.
• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.

About the role

Be part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team and provide expert nursing care and clinical leadership to children, adolescents, and their families. Working across acute and chronic illness, injury, and mental health, you will help deliver quality clinical services to those experiencing complex social, emotional, and behavioural challenges within healthcare.

Key duties of the role

• Provide expert clinical knowledge and or interventions at the interface of child and adolescent mental health and medical illness.
• Provide direct mental health nursing, implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management, and evaluate progress.
• Contribute expert mental health nursing assessment and advice to local clinical teams.
• Contribute specific mental health expertise to nursing/midwifery practice through clinical protocol and standards development.
• Deliver Consultation and Liaison services to other clinical units and professionals.

Skills and Experience

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate, enrolled in an approved Mental Health course or holds a qualification in mental health practice.
• Registered Nurse with at least 3 years post registration experience.
• Competence in delivering proficient and comprehensive mental health nursing assessment and direct clinical services to children, young people and their families.
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet set timelines.
• Demonstrated ability in the leadership and facilitation of change management.

Enquiries can be directed to

Emma Owen

Statewide Service Manager

Emma.Owen@sa.gov.au

8161 7227

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To learn more about this role — including key selection criteria, special conditions and minimum requirements — please refer to the attached role description and the document checklists below:

• RN3 - Nurse Consultant - Consultant and Liaison CAMHS - Role Description - 949844.pdf
• Immunisation Requirements Checklist
• Applicant Documents Checklist

If you would like further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Application Closing Date: Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 11:55pm