Details
- Part time roles available
- Unique environment with a real opportunity to make a difference
- Nurse-led model of primary healthcare offering significant autonomy
The Position
As the Registered Nurse you will be responsible for:
- Developing and reviewing patient’s mental health care plans, in consultation with the patient
- Closely monitoring patients mental state and providing thorough mental health assessments and risk assessments in an outpatient setting
- Providing primary mental health discharge planning
- Providing primary health care support to patients, throughout their stay at the correctional facility
- Liaising with a multidisciplinary healthcare team to provide coordinated patient management
The Location
Located in central Victoria approximately 150km from Melbourne.
Essential Criteria
- Registered General Nurse qualification with a post graduate Mental Health qualification or equivalent
- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
- Minimum 12months experience as a Registered Nurse in Australia
- A minimum of at least one year post graduate psychiatric nursing experience
- Recent nursing experience in a mental healthcare setting
- Demonstrated capacity to meet the above accountabilities
- Superior communication, interpersonal and organisational skills and the ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes
- Proven experience dealing with complaints and incident management and achieving successful outcomes
- Ability to participate in the “at risk” on-call roster if required
- Intermediate to advanced PC skills, including word processing and spreadsheet applications and other data bases as required
- Police check clearance
- Working with children’s check clearance
About Nursing Jobs Australia
Nursing Jobs Australia is a nursing division within Skilled Medical Pty Ltd, a leader in international health and Medical Recruitment placement for short-term and permanent roles.
Skilled Medical is a doctor-led company with 15 years of industry experience, and is an international Medical Recruitment agency that helps qualified medical professionals with their career in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
With local offices located in Melbourne and London, we provide a personalised service to assist Nurses like yourself in finding their next role within the healthcare industry.
To Apply
By clicking on 'Apply Now' you will register your interest to work. Once your CV/Resume has been received, a Recruitment Consultant will be in touch.
To speak to our Nursing Team directly and discuss this opportunity, please email your enquiry/CV to Elly Blakeley at [email protected] or call us on 1300 444 100.