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Transform Lives as a Mental Health Registered Nurse - Jamie Larcombe Centre 

Join SA Health's Jamie Larcombe Centre as a Registered Nurse and be part of South Australia's leading mental health care team, where you will deliver compassionate, evidence-based nursing care in a supportive and modern environment. This full-time and part-time ongoing opportunity offers exceptional professional development, flexible working arrangements, and the chance to make a real difference in the lives of patients and their families. Take your nursing career to the next level with SA Health, where your expertise is valued and your growth is our priority.

About the role: 

As a Registered Nurse at the Jamie Larcombe Centre, you will play a vital role in providing compassionate and evidence-based mental health care. Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, some of your duties for the role will include:

• Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team framework
• Working collaboratively with mental health consumers and their families where there can be multiple complexities, diverse cultural backgrounds and consumer expectations
• Providing direct person-centred nursing care patients on a shift by shift basis
• Providing health promotion and education, to patients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individuals
• Providing, with increasing capacity over time, support and guidance to newer or less experienced staff, enrolled nurses and student nurses
• Contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our patients

About you:

• Registered as a Nurse by the Nursing/Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and who holds a current practicing certificate.
• Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice
• Demonstrated competence in mental health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards
• Ability to be, creative, innovative and flexible when approaching issues within a healthcare setting
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to work within a team framework that fosters an environment that develops staff potential

Please note that this position is multi-classed as either a RN01 or RN2C and classification will be determined by skills, qualifications and experience.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Louise Hellon, NUM, Mobile:0423607763, Louise.Hellon@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Friday 20th March 2026

Attachments:

• RNM1 JLC - Role Description
• RN2C JLC - 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: 931594