Registered Nurse - Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program 2027 Intake

Job no:
Work type: Part time
Location: Adelaide Metro Southern
Categories: Mental Health, Nursing/Midwifery, Public Health

- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Flinders Medical Centre– SALHN Mental Health Services (MHS)
- Salary $77,824 - $106,187 p.a. (Pro Rata) RN/M1| 12 Month Contract Until January 2028
- Multiple Positions Available

Launch Your Mental Health Nursing Career | RN Graduate Diploma Program 2027

Join SALHN's 2027 Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program as a Registered Nurse at Flinders Medical Centre, where you'll develop specialist mental health skills while delivering meaningful, recovery-focused care to consumers across Adelaide's southern metro. If you're a Registered Nurse ready to commit to mental health as your speciality, this program gives you the structure, the team, and the experience to get there.

About the role:

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for delivering safe, person-centred mental health nursing care within a multidisciplinary team at Flinders Medical Centre, while applying and integrating the clinical knowledge developed through your Graduate Diploma studies into everyday practice.

Duties for the role will include:

- Assess individual patient/client needs, plan, implement and/or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options including other disciplines or agencies,
- Provide direct person-centred nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients on a shift-by-shift basis in a defined clinical area with increasing autonomy over time,
- Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
- Provide health promotion and education,



to patients/clients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individual,
- Participate in evaluative research activities within the practice setting

About you:

- Registered as a Nurse by the Nursing/Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and who holds a current practicing certificate. Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course,
- Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
- Demonstrated competence in mental health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Mark Wilcock, Nurse Manager, ,

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 27 September 2026

Attachments:

- Registered Nurse Midwife Level 1 Role Description
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

- We also offer salary sacrifice advantages which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref:

Advertised: 08 Sep 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 27 Sep 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time

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