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Transform Lives as a Nurse Consultant ED Mental Health - Flinders Medical Centre

Join SA Health as a Nurse Consultant Emergency Department Mental Health at Flinders Medical Centre, where you will provide expert clinical leadership and specialised mental health care to patients in crisis. This full-time, ongoing position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working with a supportive multidisciplinary team in one of South Australia's leading healthcare facilities. Take the next step in your mental health nursing career with SA Health, where professional growth, competitive benefits, and exceptional patient care come together.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nursing Director Acute Services, some of your duties for the role will include:

• Provide direct, expert clinical nursing/midwifery care, select and implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management to a defined population of patients/clients and evaluate progress, Category 1&2 presentations to ED, inclusive of Behaviours of Concern huddles (BOC)
• Effective complex discharge planning / hospital avoidance through the provision of education, equipment and referral
• Contribute expert nursing/midwifery assessment and advice to local clinical teams to achieve integrated nursing/midwifery care within a risk management framework, for all patients/clients presenting under Section 56 Care and Control
• Ensure mechanisms are in place to support ongoing education where work and learning are integrated

About you:

• Effective leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated skill in providing mental health specific education
• Computer literacy in the current nursing and clinical information systems
• Experience in the supervision of students, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses and or midwives
• Proven ability for flexibility, innovation and creativity within the whole of service setting

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Susan Mclean, Nursing Director, 0478256899, Susan.Mclean@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Thursday 27th November 2025

Attachments:

• ED Nurse Consultant MH- Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• 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 and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• 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: 919591