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SalaryPosition Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 3
Remuneration: 122850 - 139559 full time equivalent base salary range (excludes super, leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: 24
Requisition ID: REQ475909
Sydney Children's Hospitals Network is the largest paediatric health care entity in Australia. We care for thousands of children each year in our hospitals and in their homes — with one purpose in mind — to help young people live their healthiest lives.
Additional information:- An eligibility list will be created for future permanent part time and temporary part time vacancies.
Please note that this is a network position and will be required to work across two sites - Westmead and Randwick
What you'll be doing
The Child & Adolescent Psychological Telemedicine Outreach Service (CAPTOS) started as a pilot service in 1996 and now provides child and adolescent telepsychiatry services throughout NSW. Services started with child psychiatrists consulting to rural families, with rural mental health workers. The service now extends to patient-centred consultations and supervision delivered via videoconferencing, and includes input from psychiatry, psychology, social work and family therapists in addition to direct consultation to children, young people and families. Clinicians also provide a face-to face service through rural visits, for both clinical consultation and provision of education sessions. The CAPTOS Clinical and Education Manager's position provides overall coordination of the service. The position holder provides regular reports on the service to NSW Health and other bodies, including an Annual Report. The position requires the ongoing development of systems for service monitoring, outcome assessment and continuous service improvement. The position holder coordinates the service, including liaison with rural clinicians and service directors, ensuring clinician availability for clinical consultation and rural site visits, trouble-shooting technical issues, and leading and coordinating the program of clinical supervision and education sessions. The Manager also provides treating clinician supervision and education. The Manager is expected to develop a research interest in line with the position. The successful applicant will be expected to spend up to twenty (20) days per year travelling to rural and remote areas.
- A degree in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience.
- Significant relevant recent experience working with children, adolescents and families in a mental health setting, including experience in complex clinical case management.
- Demonstrated highly developed and effective leadership and management skills in mental health settings, including the capacity to manage a team and develop, monitor and achieve strategic outcomes and business plans.
- Demonstrated highly developed and effective interpersonal skills in communication, negotiation and delegation.
- Demonstrated experience in provision of adult training and/or education.
- Demonstrated experience in research, including professional publication
- Demonstrated ability to exercise judgement and take responsibility for developing standards, practices, policies and procedures in light of changing service needs
- Current NSW Drivers Licence
SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity - we acknowledge the vibrancy that a diverse workforce brings to enhance both our workplace culture and our service delivery to children, young people and their families and carers. We encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply. If you identify as an Indigenous Australian or as a person with a disability, please contact us if you would like some more information about our recruitment process.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families that access the services we provide at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. Aboriginal job applicants are encouraged to visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course (2 doses) of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Applicants holding visas with working rights may be considered for temporary appointment (up to the expiry date of their visa) where no suitable local applicant is identified.
Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
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2) Find out more about applying for this position
If you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander wishing to apply for this role and want to speak with an Aboriginal person/representative from the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network please contact Wayne Dargan on ************@health.nsw.gov.au
For technical support please contact the customer services team on 1300 679 367 and select option 3.
Applications Close: 1/04/2024
