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• Yorke and Northern Local Health Network, Port Pirie
• RN/M3 | Full Time | Ongoing
• Salary: $125,183 - $130,779 p.a
• Eligibility: Open to Everyone 

Take Your Mental Health Nursing Career Further as a Nurse Consultant with YNLHN!

Are you an expert mental health nurse ready to influence service quality and support consumer recovery across diverse care settings? Join YNLHN as a Nurse Consultant and bring your advanced clinical expertise, leadership, and autonomy to a role that shapes high-quality, safe mental health care across community, acute, and rehabilitation services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver expert mental health nursing care and provide high-level clinical consultancy.
• Offer clinical leadership to nursing teams to support best-practice service delivery.
• Lead and coordinate projects or programs that enhance consumer outcomes and service improvement.
• Ensure accountability for clinical practice, professional advice, and delegated care.

What We’re Looking For:

We’re seeking an experienced mental health nursing professional with advanced clinical skills, strong leadership capability, and the confidence to work autonomously within their specialty. You’ll bring sound judgement, expert decision-making, and a commitment to recovery-focused, safe, and high-quality care. Your ability to influence practice, guide others, and align clinical work with policy and standards will be key to your success in this role.

About Yorke and Northern Local Health Network

A career in the Yorke and Northern Local Health Network offers many great lifestyle benefits, including diverse job prospects and the opportunity to fast track your skills and career, not to mention your choice of scenery from farm, ocean, vineyards and the Southern Flinders Ranges. View the below videos for more information about working for Yorke and Northern Local Health Network

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Applicant Information

The YNLHN offers our employees access to salary sacrifice arrangements through Smart Salary (watch a short video about what salary packaging is click here) and some areas have access to a remote zone allowance. For information about the eligibility for the Relocation Support working for SA Health can be found here.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working 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 appropriate immunisation requirements.

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

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: 922327

Enquiries

Kylie Backshall
Position: Mental Health Team Leader
Phone: (08) 8638 4721
E-mail: kylie.backshall@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

Tuesday 9th December 2025 - 11.55PM

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

Attachments

922327 RN/M3 Role Description.pdf

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