Make a difference in Mental Health Nursing

Looking for a nursing role where you can build meaningful connections and make a genuine difference in someone's recovery?

Join our Mental Health team in Port Macquarie and become part of a multidisciplinary service supporting people experiencing mental health challenges across both inpatient and community settings.

Mental Health Nursing offers the opportunity to work alongside people at some of the most vulnerable and important times in their lives. You'll provide person-centred, recovery-focused care while developing broad clinical skills in assessment, therapeutic engagement, risk management, care planning and complex mental health presentations.

Whether you're an experienced Mental Health Nurse or a Registered Nurse with an interest in developing your career in mental health, we want to hear from you.

About the unit

Our Mental Health Inpatient Unit provides assessment, treatment and therapeutic care for people experiencing acute mental health concerns who require inpatient support.

Working within the unit provides exposure to a diverse range of presentations and the opportunity to develop strong mental health assessment, clinical reasoning, therapeutic communication and risk management skills.

You’ll work alongside nursing, medical and allied health professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team, with a shared focus on providing safe, respectful and recovery-oriented care.

It's a clinical environment where teamwork matters.



You'll be supported by colleagues who understand the challenges of mental health nursing and the importance of working together to achieve the best possible outcomes for consumers.

Why join our Mental Health team?

You’ll have the opportunity to:

- Develop and strengthen your specialist Mental Health Nursing skills.
- Work with a diverse range of consumers and clinical presentations.
- Build strong skills in mental health assessment, therapeutic engagement and recovery-focused care.
- Work within an experienced multidisciplinary team.
- Contribute to meaningful recovery outcomes for consumers, families and carers.
- Gain experience across inpatient and community mental health services.
- Continue developing professionally within a diverse regional mental health service.

About you

We're looking for a Registered Nurse who is compassionate, curious and genuinely interested in supporting people experiencing mental health challenges.

You’ll bring:

- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
- Clinical knowledge and skills relevant to Mental Health Nursing.
- Strong assessment, clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to recognise and respond appropriately to clinical and psychosocial risk.
- Robust communication skills and the ability to build therapeutic relationships with consumers,



families and carers.
- A collaborative approach to working within multidisciplinary teams.
- A commitment to person-centred, trauma-informed and recovery-focused care.
- Flexibility to participate in a seven-day rotating roster, including night duty, weekends and public holidays.

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who sees the person beyond the diagnosis and wants to make a meaningful contribution to their recovery.

Live and work in Port Macquarie

Build your career somewhere you’ll actually want to spend your days off.

Port Macquarie offers the combination of a regional coastal lifestyle with the services and amenities of a major regional centre. With beautiful beaches, coastal walks, waterways and hinterland on your doorstep, there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy life outside of work.

Whether your weekends involve the beach, surfing, fishing, boating, hiking, sport, cafés and restaurants or simply enjoying a more relaxed coastal lifestyle, Port Macquarie offers an enviable place to live and work.

It’s an opportunity to develop your career in Mental Health Nursing while enjoying everything the NSW Mid North Coast has to offer.

A career with purpose. A lifestyle to match.

Mental Health Nursing is challenging, rewarding and incredibly important work.

If you're looking for an opportunity to grow your clinical skills, join a supportive multidisciplinary team and make a genuine difference in the lives of people within our community, we'd love to hear from you.

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📌 Registered Nurse - Mental Health - Port Macquarie Base Hospital
🏢 Australian College of Nursing
📍 Port Macquarie