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• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Adult Mental Health Service – Elizabeth Vale
• Salary: $128,327 - $133,758 p.a. – RN4 - Ongoing Full-Time 

About the Role:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join the expanding Perinatal Mental Health team providing enhanced services to the Northern Community. 

In this pivotal role, you will have the opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of expectant and new mothers facing perinatal mental health challenges. Utilising your extensive expertise and clinical acumen, you will provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment to women experiencing conditions such as perinatal depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders during the perinatal period.

As a Nurse Practitioner, you will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, offering holistic care and support to mothers and their families. Your exceptional interpersonal skills and empathetic approach will be instrumental in fostering a safe and nurturing environment, ensuring that each patient receives the highest quality of care.

To be eligible for this position, you must be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate with the notation of Nurse Practitioner. Must be enrolled in an approved Mental Health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Nurse Practitioner looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

Exceptional communication skills, critical thinking abilities, and a commitment to evidence-based practice are essential in this role.

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

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.

Check(s)

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

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: 872543

Enquiries

Shelagh Latham

Nurse Manager

Phone: 0434 852 428

E-mail: shelagh.latham@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

11 October 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

 872543 - Nurse Practitioner - Perinatal Mental Health - RN4 - role description.pdf

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.