Team Manager - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Full-time Permanent
Closes: 23 November 2025
Classification: Health Professional Level 4/Psychologist Level 4
Salary: $125,344 - $140,285 plus superannuation
Position No: 25988 - 02OK6
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 10 November 2025
Contact Officer: Renae Nardi on
renae.nardi@act.gov.au
or
0431 754 338
What can we offer you:
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 12% Superannuation.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.
- Up to $12K reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides assessment and treatment for young people up to the age of 18 years who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health issues.
CAMHS teams are made up of multi-disciplinary mental health professionals who provide assessment treatment and clinical management within a recovery framework.
The team manager’s role will provide operational and clinical leadership of 3 programs: The Cottage Adolescent Day Program, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Program and Childhood Early Intervention Program.
As the Team Manger you will have responsibility for direct line management and supervision of the multidisciplinary allied health team including allied health assistants.
The role will also require the team manager to undertake professional development, participate and lead quality initiatives and the management of human, financial and physical resources, including work, health, and safety.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.
Note: The successful candidate will be required to be available to work within all program areas of CAMHS as service needs arise.
An Order of Merit pool may be used to fill future permanent and temporary vacancies within a 12-month period.
Appointment to the position may be based on written application and referee reports only.
For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”
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 CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our 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.
The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory's history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.
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