Job Description
Registered Nurse - Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program **** Intake
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Job no: ******
n Work type: Part time
n Location: Adelaide Metro Southern
n Categories: Mental Health, Nursing/Midwifery, Public Health
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Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Flinders Medical Centre– SALHN Mental Health Services (MHS)
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Salary $77,824 - $106,187 p.a. (Pro Rata) RN/M1| 12 Month Contract Until January ****
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Multiple Positions Available
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Launch Your Mental Health Nursing Career | RN Graduate Diploma Program ****
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Join SALHN's **** 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.
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About the role:
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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.
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Duties for the role will include:
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Assess individual patient/client needs, plan, implement and/or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options including other disciplines or agencies,
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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,
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Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and secure work activities within the practice setting,
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Provide health promotion and education,



to patients/clients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individual,
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Participate in evaluative research activities within the practice setting
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About you:
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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,
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Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
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Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
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Demonstrated competence in mental health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards
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Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.
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Want To Know More? Contact: Mark Wilcock, Nurse Manager, ************, Mark.
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Application Closing Date: ***** pm Sunday 27 September ****
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Attachments:
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Registered Nurse Midwife Level 1 Role Description
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Australian applicant guidelines
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International applicant guidelines
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Applicant Information:
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We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
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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.
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Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
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SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: ******
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Advertised: 08 Sep **** Cen. Australia Standard Time
n Applications close: 27 Sep **** Cen. Australia Standard Time
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40 - Southern Adelaide Local Health Network 1
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📌 Registered Nurse - Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program 2027 Intake (South Australia)
🏢 Palliative Care
📍 South Australia