Clinical Nurse Specialist - Mental Health Paediatric Unit
Core
Provide expert clinical care, acute inpatient mental health care coordination, and therapeutic interventions for children and young people (0–17 years) in a specialist paediatric inpatient setting.
Role type
Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health)
Builds
Safe, person-centred, and recovery-oriented mental health services for paediatric consumers.
Domain
Healthcare / Paediatric Mental Health
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Paediatric mental health nursing, biopsychosocial assessment, trauma-informed care, psychotherapeutic interventions, clinical leadership, multidisciplinary team collaboration
Preferred skills
Postgraduate qualifications, previous clinical leadership experience
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Provide acute inpatient mental health care coordination; complete comprehensive biopsychosocial and mental state assessments; provide therapeutic engagement and evidence-informed psychotherapeutic interventions; monitor and review treatment responses; work with children, young people, and families using a trauma-informed approach; provide clinical leadership; support implementation of clinical standards and policies.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership scope