In this quick-paced and rewarding role, you will provide comprehensive mental health assessment, crisis intervention, triage, treatment, and support to consumers experiencing acute mental health difficulties and their families.

Key responsibilities
Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in delivering recovery-oriented care across emergency, community, and telephone-based mental health services throughout Gippsland.
Conduct timely mental health assessments, triage, risk assessments, and crisis interventions for consumers presenting with acute mental health concerns in emergency and community settings.
Provide evidence-based treatment, recovery-oriented interventions, safety planning, and brief therapeutic support to consumers and their families/carers.




Deliver telephone mental health triage services for the Gippsland region, ensuring appropriate prioritisation, advice, referral, and escalation of care.

What you need
Qualified Mental Health professional with registration and/or qualified eligibility in Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, or Speech Pathology.
Demonstrated experience assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for consumers experiencing mental health challenges.
Robust knowledge of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022, recovery-oriented practice, risk assessment, and crisis intervention principles.
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📌 Registered Psychiatric Nurse East Gippsland Shire
🏢 Latrobe Regional Health
📍 East Gippsland Shire