Senior Manager - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency
Closes: 08 November 2026
Classification: Health Professional Level 5/Psychologist Level 5
Salary: $149,172 - $167,151 plus superannuation
Position No: 47214 - 02SF0
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 04 November 2026
Contact Officer: Carrie Coghlan on carrie.coghlan@act.gov.au
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.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- 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) is seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Senior Manager to lead its Specialist Services portfolio. This diverse portfolio includes the Eating Disorders Program, Eating Disorder Residential Treatment Centre, Specialist Youth Mental Health Outreach Service, Cottage Day Program, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Program, and Childhood Early Intervention Program.
In this senior leadership role, you will provide strategic, clinical and operational leadership across specialist mental health services, ensuring high-quality, consumer-centred care and strong clinical governance. You will lead service development, workforce planning, quality improvement initiatives and multidisciplinary teams, while contributing to business planning, service innovation and organisational priorities.
The successful candidate will be an experienced leader with strong strategic thinking, excellent communication skills and a proven ability to lead and influence teams in a complex health environment. You will be passionate about improving outcomes for children, adolescents and young people, while driving innovation and excellence across specialist mental health services.
The role offers a supportive and professional environment with access to ongoing leadership and professional development opportunities, while contributing to improved outcomes for young people and their families.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- 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: This is a temporary position available for a period of 14 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.
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 ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal .
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This is a temporary position available for a period of 14 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.
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Senior Manager - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services | Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency in Canberra employer: ACT
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