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• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Older Person Mental Health Service – Northgate
• Salary: $72,651 - $99,129 p.a. – RN1 – Temporary Full-Time, up to 17 October 2025 (Multiple Positions)

About the Role:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking Registered Nurses to join the Older Person Mental Health Service, to make a meaningful difference in the lives of older individuals experiencing mental health challenges.

As a Registered Nurse within Older Persons Mental Health, you will play a pivotal role in delivering comprehensive and compassionate care to our patients. Utilising your exceptional clinical skills and expertise, you will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement individualised care plans, ensuring the highest standards of patient-centred care.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide holistic care to older adults with mental health conditions, fostering their well-being and quality of life.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals across disciplines to ensure seamless and integrated care.
• Participate in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance your knowledge and skills.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of care delivery through evidence-based practice and innovation.

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 hold, or be eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate. 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 Registered Mental Health Nurse 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.

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 (both elective and emergency), obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, mental health, oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care and rehabilitation. Increasingly these are provided across a range of hospital, community and home-based settings.

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):

• 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: 879321

Enquiries:

Gerald Yeoh

Nurse Manager

Phone: 0435 962 408

E-mail: gerald.yeoh@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date:

27 September 2024 – 11.55PM

Role Description:

 879321 - Registered Nurse - Older Person Mental Health Northgate House (Multiple Positions) - RN1 - role description.pdf

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