The Team

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service is a tertiary level clinical mental health service, providing triage, assessment, treatment and support to young people aged 0-18 and their families statewide. The multidisciplinary team works across several sites and provides a therapeutic service for both inpatients and outpatients across Tasmania. 

The Role

As part of a multidisciplinary team delivering high quality mental health services in accordance with Mental Health Services principles, national Mental Health Standards, Agency policy, legal requirements and relevant professional competencies, the Speech Pathologist will:

• Work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in providing specialist assessment, treatment, and delivery of Speech Pathology services for infants, children and adolescents with psychiatric, behavioural, emotional or developmental difficulties. 
• Undertake delivery of quality care to clients of CAMHS based on best practice principles and within a collaborative and multidisciplinary framework.
• Promote community awareness in relation to mental health and act as a consultant to other agencies with regard to the support and management of clients with mental health needs.

You will need

• Demonstrated high level competency in specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people presenting with, or at risk of developing, a range of psychiatric, behavioural, emotional, social, developmental or learning problems, including Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Extensive skills and experience in social communication, the use of pragmatic language and language-based problem solving to engage with young people and their families.
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders and demonstrated capacity to effectively function in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Provide expert, comprehensive input to management plans by evaluating the client’s communication profile and articulating the impact of this on the client’s functioning in their family and community, on diagnoses, on the treatment experience and on their mental health management.
• Provide intervention, including individual work, group work and case management, to an allocated caseload of infant, children, and adolescents in the CAMHS setting.

Eligibility

Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria.

• Tertiary qualification/program of study accredited by Speech Pathology Australia
• Eligible for membership with the Speech Pathology Australia
  (Or where regulatory requirements exist, NDIS Q&S Commission Provider Registration Requirements)
• Full member of Speech Pathology Australia
• Current Working with Children Registration

Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:

• Post graduate qualification pertinent to mental health/paediatric speech pathology
• Significant clinical paediatric experience with children and adolescents presenting with social, emotional, learning and behavioural problems
• Current Driver’s Licence