Multi Profession Health Professional - Child And Adolescent Mental Health Services

What can we offer you: 

About the Role:

The Division of Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services provides treatment and support to children, youth and adults through inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes. We partner with our health care consumers, their family, carers, government, and community organisations to ensure that they receive the best possible care during their treatment and recovery.

All care that we provide is driven by our values of being kind, reliable, respectful, and progressive. We’re also guided by contemporary Mental Health and human rights legislation which means we operate within a framework that ensures the rights and dignity of people are promoted and protected.

The Division delivers services at several locations, including hospital inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, detention centres, other community settings including peoples’ homes.

These services include:

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides assessment and treatment for children and young people up to the age of 18 years who are experiencing moderate to severe Mental Health issues. CAMHS also provides high quality tertiary Mental Health care for young people aged 14-25 experiencing first onset psychosis and some services across the lifespan.

The CAMHS Adolescent Unit (CAU)

CAU is a 6-bed inpatient unit for adolescents aged 12 years and up to their 18th birthday who are experiencing moderate to severe mental illness.  The unit is designed to meet the physical development and psychological needs of adolescents. CAU is a contemporary evidence-based service that is guided by the principles of recovery and is trauma informed.  The service aims to provide collaborative care involving the young person, their parent, their carers/guardians and other key services.

To support the psychosocial and functional wellbeing of adolescents, the CAU delivers an intensive therapy program.

CAU operates the Safewards model of evidence-based nursing interventions, which strengthens existing principles of good nursing practice. The Safewards model encourages staff and Adolescents (including parents, carers, family, and support people) to work together to make the ward safer for everyone. 

CAMHS is seeking a temporary part time, 0.2 FTE, HP2 Creative Arts Therapist, Music Therapist or Exercise Physiologist to provide discipline specific expertise to the CAU, including facilitating group interventions, individual interventions, and relevant assessments and referrals. The role will also require the team member to undertake professional development and supervision, participate in quality initiatives and contribute to multidisciplinary team processes.

Additionally, the role is required to be available to work within all program areas of CAMHS, as service needs arise.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

Note: The successful candidate will be required to:

To Apply: 

Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based Health Services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the . 

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our communityOur Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities. 

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Sungmin Kim at (02) 5124 7*** or at

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