Registered Psychiatric Nurse (Grade 2), Acute Intervention Service

Employment Type - Permanent Part Time

Hours per fortnight -64

Job Category -Nursing - Registered Nurse (Div 1)

- Advance your career in a thriving service with strong support structures
- Develop your clinical skills at Victoria’s largest regional healthcare provider
- Permanant | Part time | 64 hours per fortnight

About the role

This role is located at The McKellar Mental Health & Wellbeing Centre (MH&WBC;), a modern, purpose-built acute inpatient mental health facility located within Barwon Health’s McKellar Centre precinct. The service provides high-quality, recovery-oriented care for adults experiencing acute mental health challenges, with a strong focus on safety, engagement, and collaborative treatment planning. Our multidisciplinary team works closely with consumers, families, carers, and community supports to promotestabilisation, wellbeing, and transition back to the community.

Your primary responsibility is to provide high quality, best practice direct delivery of psychiatric treatment and care to consumers (50+) as part of a multidisciplinary team which operates within a holistic recovery-based model.

We are seeking registered psychiatric nurses with:

- Experience in the complexities of working in Acute Mental Health
- A genuine interest in delivering recovery oriented, consumer centred delivery of care.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to function as a member of the multidisciplinary team

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver high-quality, recovery-oriented psychiatric nursing care, including comprehensive mental state assessments, risk-informed care planning, and evidence-based interventions within a multidisciplinary team
- Maintain accurate, compliant clinical documentation and actively participate in clinical reviews, handovers, therapy programs,



and family/carer engagement to support continuity of care
- Contribute to service quality and safety through adherence to clinical standards, participation in quality improvement activities, incident reporting (Risk Man), and alignment with National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards

What We Are Looking For

- A Registered Psychiatric Nurse who demonstrates strong clinical capability in acute mental health, including risk assessment, care planning, and delivery of evidence-based interventions
- A cooperative practitioner with well-developed communication skills, able to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and engage consumers, families, and carers
- A professional committed to continuous learning, compliance, and reflective practice, including meeting AHPRA CPD requirements, participating in supervision, and adhering to policies, legislation, and clinical standards

Please note Barwon Health will only contact you via our official email and never use unconventional means, such as text messaging or other services.

- Excellent working conditions and a strong sense of job satisfaction
- A vibrant staff wellbeing program and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
- Attractive salary packaging benefits
- Living expenses capped at $9,010
- Meals and entertainment capped at $2,650

Barwon Health is an inclusive and welcoming employer, committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve. We value and celebrate people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities, family structures, and identities, and encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

- Working with Children Check (if applicable)

Contact person: Jessica Lewis | Nurse Unit Manager | McKellar Mental Health and Wellbeing

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