- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Community Mental Health – Salisbury
- Salary (plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits):
- Ongoing Full-Time (Multiple Positions)
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Registered or Clinical Nurse within the Adult Community Mental Health team.
As a Registered or Clinical Nurse, you will play a vital role in providing comprehensive assessment, care planning, and evidence-based interventions to adults experiencing complex mental health conditions. Our community-based approach focuses on recovery-oriented care, supporting clients to achieve their personal goals while maintaining independence in their home environment.
You'll be part of a specialised multidisciplinary team delivering comprehensive mental health services to adults in community settings. This role offers the opportunity to provide holistic, person-centred care while working collaboratively with families, carers, and healthcare professionals to support recovery and wellbeing.
The Assertive team are interdisciplinary and work together to provide intensive, community-based services to individuals who have significant difficulties engaging in traditional mental health services. The role of the Assertive team is to support clients in the recovery journey, promoting stability, independence, and overall wellbeing, provide comprehensive and intensive community-based support and treatment for individuals with severe mental illnesses. The primary goal is to promote recovery, enhance quality of life, and prevent hospitalisation. The Assertive Team operate over seven days, between the hours of 08:30 and 17:30.
The Acute stream provides specialist mental health assessment and short-term therapeutic interventions for clients aged between 18 years and 64 years. Treatment will aim to Assess, Stabilise, Treat, and Facilitate Transfer of Care to the most appropriate service, in the least restrictive environment, at the earliest opportunity. The Acute Stream is intended to deliver a dynamic and responsive service and will respond to clients, families and/or carers who require an urgent tertiary mental health response. These referrals meet the Rapid Response, Tier 1 and Tier 2 criteria in accordance with the Mental Health Triage scale. Response times will be matched with this scale. Additionally, the Acute Stream will provide Post Discharge support to new consumers of mental health services. Acute Stream staff will also provide non-urgent assessments to consumers to promote service flow. The Acute Stream will operate over seven days, between the hours of 08:00 and 21:00.
Appointment to the role will be at the RN1 or RN2C classification, dependent on the level of experience.
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. Must be enrolled in an approved Mental Health course or holds a qualification in mental health practice.
About You:
In this role, you will bring a strong blend of clinical capability, professional judgement, and collaborative skill. Your communication, problem-solving, conflict-resolution, and negotiation abilities enable you to navigate complex situations with confidence and clarity. You work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to a cohesive and supportive care environment. Your ability to prioritise competing demands and meet deadlines ensures patients receive timely, high-quality care, while your creativity, flexibility, and innovative thinking help you respond effectively to challenges.
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) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.
NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.
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.
SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.
We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if you have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.
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 Check (National Police Certificate) for general employment probity, vulnerable person-related employment and aged care sector screening – apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.
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: 929932
Enquiries:
Katrina Robinson
Nurse Manager
Phone: 0435 962 408
E-mail: katrina.robinson@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
9 March 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
929932 - Registered_Clinical Nurse - Adult Community Mental Health - Acute and Assertive Teams (Multiple Positions) - RN1 - role description.pdf
929932 - Registered_Clinical Nurse - Adult Community Mental Health - Acute and Assertive Teams (Multiple Positions) - RN2C - role description.pdf
For more information about Mental Health Nursing at NALHN visit our Mental Health Nursing Careers page.
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
