Employment
Karitane is a dynamic and innovative not for profit organisation and registered charity providing early parenting services. We are a family-friendly workplace with a strong and successful culture of success that reflects our values of innovation, excellence, respect and collaboration. We are a passionate and a highly engaged team making a difference to family’s lives. We support each other and provide excellent professional development opportunities. Join our team and make a difference today.
Benefits of a career at Karitane
- Dynamic team
- Innovative organisation
- Family-friendly workplace
- Professional development, support and mentoring
- Opportunity to salary package up to $16,050 tax free (as not-for-profit and registered charity)
- Additional leave, accrued day off once a month where applicable
- Encouraged to achieve your full potential
- Respected and recognised
- Flexible work practices where applicable and appropriate
- Meaningful work – that makes a difference
Clinical Coordinator Perinatal, Infant and Child Mental Health Services (PICMHS)
We are seeking a qualified and experienced Clinical Coordinator who will provide management of the clinical flow for families into and through the intensive perinatal, infant and child mental health services provided at Karitane. The primary function of this role is to support the Manager Mental Health with the day to day operational management and coordination of clinical services across Karitane’s intensive mental health services. The role includes triaging and allocating referrals, chairing intake meetings, leadership for care planning, review and discharge processes and where indicated, overseeing collaborative review of complex cases and transfer and escalation of care. Integral to the role is management of the waitlists and assisting clinical staff with clinical management processes.
Close Date; 25 October 2021
Registered Nurse – Child and Family Health New Graduate Program
This is an Identified Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Position
An exciting opportunity exists for a Registered Nurse- as part of the New Graduate Program to join a multidisciplinary team at the Karitane Carramar and Camden inpatient Residential Units and the Virtual Residential Parenting Services. Both Carramar and Camden Residential Units are a tertiary service offering an intensive inpatient program over 4 nights and 5 days to families in NSW experiencing significant parenting challenges with children aged 0-5 years of age. The Virtual Residential Parenting Service is an innovative virtual modality of service provision which involves the delivery of a virtual residential intensive program to families over a 4 night 5 day period.
Close Date; 8 October 2021
Registered Nurse – Child and Family Health New Graduate Program
An exciting opportunity exists for a Registered Nurse- as part of the New Graduate Program to join a multidisciplinary team at the Karitane Carramar and Camden inpatient Residential Units and the Virtual Residential Parenting Services. Both Carramar and Camden Residential Units are a tertiary service offering an intensive inpatient program over 4 nights and 5 days to families in NSW experiencing significant parenting challenges with children aged 0-5 years of age. The Virtual Residential Parenting Service is an innovative virtual modality of service provision which involves the delivery of a virtual residential intensive program to families over a 4 night 5 day period.
Close Date; 8 October 2021
Aboriginal Liaison Officer – NSW, National Perinatal Infant Mental Health Connect & Care
This is a truly once in a lifetime opportunity to work with the National Perinatal Infant Mental Health Connect & Care Team engaged in the implementation and ongoing development of a new, exciting and highly impactful care navigation service with a leading non-profit parenting support service provider and experienced consortium members. In an Australian-first, Perinatal Infant Mental Health place-based navigators will be triaging and coordinating referrals from around the country, ensuring expansive local knowledge and subsequent location-specific support pathways. The Aboriginal Liaison Officer will support the Perinatal Infant Mental Health Care Navigators, Administrative team, National Perinatal Infant Mental Health Director and Australasian Association of Parenting and Child Health colleagues to connect Aboriginal families to perinatal infant mental health services that best meet their needs.
Close Date; 8 October 2021
Safety & Quality and Infection Control Coordinator
We are seeking a confident and experienced Safety & Quality and Infection Control Coordinator who is responsible for ensuring Karitane implements the National Safety & Quality Healthcare Service (NSQHS) Standards across all parts of the organisation. This role is also responsible for infection prevention and control processes and monitoring implementation and auditing of practices.
Close Date; 8 October 2021
Child and Famiy Health Nurse to work Night Shift within the Virtual Residential Parenting Service
We are seeking an expression of interest for a qualified and experienced Child and Family Health Nurse to work Night Shift within our Virtual Residential Parenting Service (training will be provided) and Residential Units located at Carramar and Camden.
Close Date; 15 October 2021
Child and Famiy Health Nurse to work within the Inpatient Residential Unit and Virtual Residential Parenting Service
We are seeking an expression of interest for a qualified and experienced Child and Family Health Nurse to work within our Inpatient Residential Unit and Virtual Residential Parenting Service (training will be provided) and Residential Units located at Carramar and Camden.
Close Date; 7 December 2021
Nurse Unit Manager Level 2 Residential Unit & Virtual Residential Parenting Service
An exciting opportunity exists for a Nurse Unit Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team at the Karitane Carramar inpatient Residential Unit and the Virtual Residential Parenting Service. The Carramar Residential Unit is a tertiary service offering an intensive inpatient program over 4 nights and 5 days to families in NSW experiencing significant parenting challenges with children aged 0-5 years of age. The Virtual Residential Parenting Service is an innovative virtual modality of service provision which involves the delivery of a virtual residential intensive program to families over a 4 night 5 day period. The Nurse Unit Manager will lead the successful implementation of this program by supporting the team and the organisation.
Close Date; 4 October 2021
Perinatal Psychologist/Mental Health Social Worker
Our specialist perinatal (conception to one year postpartum) clinicians provide a wide range of individual, couple and parent-infant therapies to women and their partners. In addition to pre-conception counselling, we offer services to those experiencing, or at risk of developing, perinatal depressive, anxiety and trauma or stressor-related disorders. Support is also provided to women and their partners who have experienced a pregnancy or childbirthrelated loss, e.g. stillbirth, miscarriage or termination.
Administrative Assistant
Are you able to confidently multi task, problem solve and demonstrate excellent communication skills in a busy environment? If this is you, an exciting opportunity exists for an administration assistant who is able to provide outstanding customer service at Karitane Carramar reception and parenting centre . This is a temporary position to 31st March 2022 and is 16 hours per week.
Close Date; 10 October 2021
Social Worker Level 1-2
The role of the Social Worker is to provide a comprehensive clinical service for clients accessing the Virtual Residential Parenting Services. These services include one to one counselling, crisis intervention, couple counselling, group work, family work in the context of complex issues, psychosocial assessment and mental health management, early intervention and follow-up with community referral services. Overall client care is administered in consultation with the Unit Manager and Manager Mental Health around complex families, mental health and early intervention. This position is temporary part-time till June 2024, 16 hours per week.
Close Date; 15th October 2021
COVID-19 Requirement
All NSW Health workers are required to have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 30 September 2021 and two doses by 30 November 2021 or have an approved medical contraindication certificate.
You will be required to provide a record of your COVID-19 vaccination status if successful.
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Careline
Do you have a parenting question about your 0 – 5 year old child? When you call Karitane Careline a friendly and experienced Child and Family Health Nurse will support you with guidance and encouragement on your parenting journey.
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