Clinical Nurse - Community Mental Health

Job no: 954263
Work type: Full time
Location: Adelaide Hills
Categories: Nursing/Midwifery

- Mount Barker
- Salary: RN/M2C $92,731 - $117,215 per annum + Super + Benefits
- Permanent/Ongoing, Full-time

WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?

The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network is offering an exciting opportunity for a full-time clinician to join our Mental Health Service in Mount Barker. This role delivers high-quality, recovery-focused mental health nursing care across community, acute and rehabilitation settings. You’ll assess, plan and coordinate care, provide therapeutic interventions, and support individuals and families using evidence-based approaches. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll monitor outcomes, adapt care plans, and contribute to programs that promote early intervention, wellbeing and community connection.

As a Clinical Nurse, you’ll take accountability for your practice while guiding and supporting less experienced staff. You’ll play a key role in team coordination, service improvement, and maintaining safe, effective care environments. The position also offers opportunities to contribute to education, quality initiatives and clinical projects, while continuing to build your skills and progress toward proficient practice.

WHO ARE WE?

The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.

WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK

Mount Barker is a fast-growing regional centre in the beautiful Adelaide Hills, known for its natural beauty, strong community,



and contemporary amenities. Just 30 minutes from Adelaide, it offers diverse job opportunities in health, education, retail, trades, and more, making it ideal for professionals seeking a great work-life balance in a vibrant and scenic environment. For more information Discover Mount Barker

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

- Are you passionate about delivering recovery-focused, person-centred mental health care that makes a meaningful difference in the lives of consumers, families and carers?
- Do you have the clinical knowledge and confidence to assess complex mental health needs, develop care plans and provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions?
- Are you committed to working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to improve outcomes and support the wellbeing of your local community?
- Do you enjoy mentoring others, sharing your knowledge and contributing to a positive learning culture for students, graduates and less experienced staff?
- Are you motivated to lead improvements in mental health services through quality initiatives, research, clinical leadership and ongoing professional development?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…

HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?

- Deliver person-centred, recovery-oriented mental health nursing care across community, acute and rehabilitation settings.
- Assess consumer needs, develop and review care plans, coordinate services, and provide therapeutic interventions that support positive health outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with consumers, families, carers and multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated mental health services.
- Provide clinical leadership, guidance and support to nursing staff, students and less experienced team members while promoting secure and effective care practices.
- Contribute to quality improvement, education, research and service development activities that strengthen mental health care delivery.

WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?

At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a

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