$63.21 - $68.07 per hour (NP75 - NP77) + salary packaging | Senior Mental Health Clinician (RPN) - North West Sector

Permanent Part Time | 20 hours per week/0.5EFT

About the Role

Join the Adult Community Mental Health Team and play a key role in delivering specialist mental health support to consumers and their families. This position provides the opportunity to undertake comprehensive assessments, deliver evidence-based interventions, and coordinate recovery-focused care within a multidisciplinary environment.

Working closely with consumers, carers, internal teams and external agencies, you will help achieve positive outcomes through collaborative, person-centred practice while also providing clinical leadership and support to colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver mental health assessments, treatment and care plans
- Conduct risk assessments and support risk management
- Coordinate care across community, inpatient and external services
- Provide clinical leadership, mentoring and supervision
- Complete clinical reports, documentation and tribunal requirements
- Participate in rostered duty functions, triage and urgent assessments

Skills & Experience

- Relevant qualification in Nursing
- Current AHPRA registration
- Experience delivering recovery-oriented mental health care
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, trauma-informed practice and risk assessment
- Strong communication and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams

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Culture & Benefits

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset.



We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

- Versatile work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to Fitness Passport membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

Interested?

Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Vanessa Sharples on ••••@gh.org.au for a confidential discussion.

We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.

If you are currently employed at Grampians Health, please sign in through the 'Employee Login' via the external Careers Page or access the Careers Page via the Intranet.

This position is paid in accordance with the Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement. The classification is Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 4 (NP75 - NP77) which ranges from $63.21 - $68.07 per hour.

About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.



Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Ballarat Region

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state's fastest growing inland city. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Ballarat has some of Australia's most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat

Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check. All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.

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