Clinical Nurse Consultant (Grd 2) – Safeguards Liverpool/Fairfield – Perm FT
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- Clinical Nurse Consultant
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- REQ567969 Requisition #
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- Apr 08, 2025 Post Date
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per week
Location: Liverpool/Fairfield Mental Health Service
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Remuneration: $131,870.90 - $134,500.70 per annum
Requisition ID: REQ567969
Application Close Date: 21/04/2025
Interview Date Range: 23/04/2025 – 30/04/2025
Contact Details: Jennifer Neculman Alfaro – 02 9827 8011 | Jennifer.NeculmanAlfaro@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity
Lead with Impact – Join Our Liverpool/Fairfield Infant Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (ICAMHS) as a Clinical Nurse Consultant in the Safeguards team
Are you an experienced Clinical Nurse Consultant ready to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children and young people? We have an exciting opportunity at the Liverpool/Fairfield Infant Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (ICAMHS) to join our dynamic Safeguards team.
Why Join Us?
Make an Impact: At ICAMHS, we provide vital mental health assessment and intervention to children and young people grappling with moderate to severe mental illness.
Dynamic Role: As a member of our Safeguards team, you'll be on the front lines, offering assertive outreach and support to children, young people, and families in both community and clinic settings.
Flexible Support: Our 7-day/week service offers mobile and flexible short-term support, ensuring that children and young people in acute mental health distress receive the care they need, when they need it.
Bridge to Care: With our community-based approach, we identify and support at-risk youth, 5 connecting them with culturally appropriate services and preventing them from falling through the cracks of mental healthcare.
Comprehensive Care: You'll have the opportunity to provide wraparound support at home and school, ensuring that children and families have access to the resources and follow-up care they need for lasting well-being.
Exciting Opportunity: If you have experience in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or acute mental healthcare interventions, we invite you to be part of our innovative and compassionate team!
Supportive and dynamic work environment: The Liverpool/Fairfield ICAMHS team is friendly, energetic, and supportive. We prioritise ongoing learning and professional development opportunities to help our clinicians realise their goals while also ensuring a focus on staff well
We’re looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative, community-focused environment. Your ability to manage complex caseloads, lead quality improvement initiatives, and build strong relationships with schools, inpatient units and other services will be key to your success.
About the Role
The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) is an expert practitioner who, through leadership facilitates evidence-based practice. In this role, you’ll bring advanced clinical knowledge of child and adolescent mental health, paired with strong leadership capabilities where your expertise will help shape better mental health outcomes for young people and their families. You'll be instrumental in supporting the team to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care while contributing to service improvement, clinical supervision, and stakeholder engagement. The CNC will promote a service which fosters clinical excellence, research, and professional leadership. The CNC contributes to quality health care by collaborating with the health care providers and consumer groups, developing clinical practice standards, and evaluating their outcomes.
If you're passionate about child and adolescent mental health and ready to lead with purpose, we’d love to hear from you.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
At least 5 years full time equivalent post registration experience, with at least 3 years full time equivalent experience in the specialty field. In addition, the employee must have approved postgraduate nursing/midwifery qualifications relevant to the field in which the employee is appointed, or such other qualifications or experience deemed appropriate by the public hospital or public health organisation - Demonstrated evidence of strategies used to maintain current knowledge of clinical practice advances and research in the relevant specialty
- Demonstrated ability to apply expert knowledge to provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of advanced evidenced based nursing care
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace
- Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
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Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
