We're seeking a Clinical Nurse or Senior Allied Health Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team and provide expert care to children and young people with severe and complex mental health problems. In this role, you'll be responsible for delivering high-level clinical services, including triage, screening, assessment, and treatment. You'll work collaboratively to provide safe, family-centred care and optimise psychosocial outcomes for our consumers and their families. This is a chance to make a real impact by providing specialized support and promoting professional standards within child and youth mental health.

Job details

About the Team

The Integrated Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) provides complex secondary and tertiary level health care. CYMHS offers specialised mental health services for families with infants, children and young people (birth to 18 years) who experience severe and complex mental health problems, and where their needs cannot be met by other services. CYMHS provides a comprehensive, recovery-orientated mental healthcare service that aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their carer networks.

About the Role

• Deliver high level clinical services. This includes:
  • Provision of high level independent clinical services including triage, screening, assessment, treatment and case management to children and young people with severe and complex mental health problems, and their carer networks, beyond routine day to day presentations
  • Demonstrate clinical leadership in advocacy for the mental health needs of service consumers and their carers and relevant agencies within the mental health team.
• Apply independent professional judgement, based on valid and reliable evidence, to a complex caseload to continuously contribute to the development of best practice mental health services.
• Contribute to the development of clinical practice procedures and protocols that support the continuum of care.
• Provide high level mental health advice and reports, and work collaboratively with team members to provide multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention.
• Provide high level mental health knowledge and skills for team training and continuing professional development activities.
• Lead the discipline's contribution, within the service unit, to develop, implement and evaluate clinical activities.
• Provide practice supervision, training and support to staff as well as training and supervision to students.
• Lead quality activities and/or research to improve or contribute to the evidence base and strategies for continuously improvement. 

 About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 653380 - HP4 Senior Mental Health Clinician CCYMHS - RD (PDF, 689KB)
  Role Description
  
  653380 - NG6 CN CCYMHS - RD (PDF, 699KB)
  Role Description
  
  CHQ_Applicant Toolkit_2025 (PDF, 862KB)
  Application Kit
  
  CHQ_Information for Applicants_2025 (PDF, 837KB)
  Information Package for Applicants