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

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 2022 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 – Essential Qualifications & Experience

- 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 – UK Mental Health Nursing Qualification is sufficient).
- Experience:
- 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 solid 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.

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