Location and Salary

Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Flinders Medical Centre – Mental Health Ward 4GP

- Salary $77,824 - $106,187 p.a. (Pro Rata) RN/M1
- Salary $90,913 - $114,917 p.a. (Pro Rata) RN/M2C
- Full Time – Ongoing Position

About the role

Join our SALHN Mental Health Services (MHS) Team! If you're a Registered or Clinical Nurse with a commitment to person-centred mental health care, this ongoing full time role offers the clinical depth, multidisciplinary support, and sense of purpose that makes a career genuinely rewarding.

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role delivers high-quality inpatient mental health nursing care as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

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.
- Participate in clinical teaching, overseeing learning experience, and goal setting for students, new staff and staff with less experience.
- Integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, evidence from a range of sources and own experience to devise and achieve agreed patient/client care outcomes.
- Promote continuity and consistency of care in collaboration with the Nurse/Midwife Unit Manager or equivalent of the ward/unit/service.

About you

- Registered as a Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds a current practicing certificate.




- Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice.
- Demonstrated competence in Mental health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards.
- Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to prioritise workload.
- Ability to be, creative, innovative and flexible when approaching issues within a healthcare setting.
- Demonstrated commitment to providing consumer/client and family centred care.

Please see the attached Role Descriptions for additional information.

This is a single vacancy, with two possible appointment classifications. The successful applicants will be appointed in the position appropriate to their skills, qualifications, and experience.

Attachments

- Registered Nurse 4GP Role Description
- Clinical Nurse 4GP Role Description
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

Benefits and Working Conditions

- 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.
- 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: 947522

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📌 Registered/Clinical Nurse Ward 4GP - Mental Health Services (Adelaide)
🏢 Sa Health
📍 Adelaide