Registered Nurse - Community Mental Health
Job Description
Registered Nurse - Mental Health Hospital in the Home (HITH) - Sponsorship Available
Location
Melbourne, Victoria
Salary
$108,000 - $120,000 per annum + Super
Employment Type
Full Time
Be a foundational member of a recent and creative Hospital in the Home (HITH) service model for Mental Health, launching in early **** in Melbourne. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver acute, recovery‐oriented mental health care in the community, providing an alternative to traditional inpatient admission.
As an experienced Registered Nurse (Mental Health), you will work autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to provide intensive, high‐quality, evidence‐based care directly to consumers in their homes and community settings. Your work will be crucial in supporting consumers through acute mental health crises, promoting recovery, and preventing relapse within their usual environment.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Care & Case Management: Deliver advanced, person‐centred, and recovery‐oriented mental health nursing care in the home setting.
Comprehensive Assessment & Risk Management: Conduct comprehensive mental state and psychosocial assessments, formulate clinical risk assessments, and develop robust, individualized crisis and relapse prevention plans in collaboration with the consumer and their family/carers.
Therapeutic Interventions: Provide a range of evidence‐based therapeutic interventions, including psychoeducation, medication management, and supportive counselling.
Physical Health Monitoring: Conduct physical health assessments and observations, monitor the physical effects of mental illness and psychotropic medications, and liaise with General Practitioners and other health providers.
Crisis Intervention: Provide timely and effective crisis intervention and support, facilitating admissions to inpatient or residential settings only when clinically indicated and necessary.
Care Coordination: Actively contribute to seamless care coordination, discharge planning, and effective linkage with community supports and continuing care services.
Documentation & Compliance: Maintain accurate, timely, and contemporaneous clinical documentation in the electronic medical record system, ensuring practice adheres to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act **** and relevant clinical standards.
Team Collaboration: Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team (e.g., Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Peer Workers) to ensure holistic and coordinated care.
Selection Criteria
Current registration as a Registered Nurse (Division 1) with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Postgraduate qualifications in Mental Health Nursing (or equivalent recognised specialisation).
Domestic Candidates: Minimum of three (3) years full‐time equivalent experience in acute, community, or crisis intervention mental health settings.
International Candidates: Minimum of four (4) years full‐time equivalent experience in acute, community, or crisis intervention mental health settings; UK,



Ireland and NZ experienced highly regarded.
Driver's License.
Knowledge & Skills
Advanced Clinical Skills: Demonstrated advanced skills in mental health assessment, comprehensive risk assessment, and clinical risk management.
Therapeutic Engagement: Exceptional ability to establish and maintain goal‐directed therapeutic relationships with consumers from diverse backgrounds, including strong communication and de‐escalation skills.
Autonomy & Teamwork: Proven ability to work safely and effectively both autonomously in the community setting and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Quality & Safety: Commitment to quality improvement, clinical governance, and continuous professional development.
About the Role
As Team Leader in Aged Mental Health, you will play a key role in leading a passionate multidisciplinary team to deliver high‐quality, recovery‐focused mental health care for older adults. You will combine strong clinical leadership with people leadership, supporting your team to thrive while building collaborative partnerships across health services, aged care and the broader community. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to consumers and their carers by promoting independence, wellbeing, continuity of care and positive outcomes across the mental health and aged care continuum.
Provide inspiring day‐to‐day leadership, clinical guidance and mentoring to a multidisciplinary team, fostering a supportive, collaborative and high‐performing team culture.
Oversee the delivery of person‐centred clinical care, including psychiatric assessment, triage, crisis response, case management, medication monitoring and risk assessment.
Promote excellence in clinical practice, supporting staff to deliver evidence‐based, recovery‐oriented care in line with professional standards, legislation and service requirements.
Lead effective caseload management, clinical review, workload allocation and service reporting, ensuring the team delivers responsive and equitable services.
Build strong relationships and partnerships across inpatient and community mental health services, emergency services, aged care, residential services and community agencies to ensure seamless continuity of care.
Champion quality improvement, service development and innovation, while supporting staff supervision, professional development and the growth of the future workforce.
Provide clinical consultation, education and support to colleagues and external stakeholders, facilitate team and service meetings, and contribute to broader programme leadership when required.
Classifications for this position will range from:
Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 5 NP51 ($140,925 per annum pro rata)




Occupational Therapist Grade 5/Social Worker Grade 5 AJ11 – AJ14 / AJ57 - AJ60 ($133,754 - $147,394 per annum pro rata)
Psychologist Grade 4 PM1 – PM5 ($123,302 - $148,309 per annum pro rata)
Your Contribution
A relevant Bachelor Degree or equivalent, with current AHPRA registration or eligibility for AASW membership.
A postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing required for Nurses.
Minimum five years' post‐graduate experience, including experience in aged mental health and community care.
Demonstrated clinical leadership and experience leading multidisciplinary teams, with strong skills in communication, collaboration, problem‐solving and conflict resolution.
Sound knowledge of Victorian mental health legislation and relevant clinical, statutory and regulatory requirements.
A robust commitment to recovery‐oriented, person‐centred care, continuous quality improvement and ongoing professional development.
Strong organisational, written and digital communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and support service improvement.
A valid Nationally Coordinated Criminal History check, or willing to obtain.
What We Offer
A focus on wellbeing initiatives, with regular events and programs.
Confidential, solutions‐focused employee counselling.
A healthy work/life balance encouraged. Full time employment comes with a monthly Accrued Day Off (additional day off per month!).
Ability to join Fitness Passport – Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities.
Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay.
Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation.
Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals.
Culture of continuous improvement.
About the Older Adult Mental Health Team
Based at St. George's campus in Kew, our friendly, collaborative multi‐disciplinary teams include the Residential Support Program (RSP), Normanby House, Healthy Ageing Service (HAS), Aged Psychiatry Assessment and Treatment Team (APATT) and Older Personals Autism Liaison Service (OPALs) colleagues, and our Consultation‐Liaison Team. We work closely with a Geriatric Medicine colleague and aged community teams at St. George's.
Working at St Vincent's
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.
Eligibility and Diversity
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and people from all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
Vaccination and Safety
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccination.
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