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Mental Health Nursing Excellence - Graduate Program Position Available

Join SA Health's prestigious Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program 2026 Intake as a Registered Nurse at Flinders Medical Centre. This part-time contract position until January 2027 combines hands-on mental health nursing experience with structured graduate education. Develop your specialised skills while making a meaningful difference in patients' mental health recovery within South Australia's leading healthcare network.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for delivering comprehensive mental health nursing care to patients while participating in multidisciplinary teams and completing your graduate diploma studies.

Duties for the role will include:

• Assess individual patient/client needs, plan, implement and/or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options including other disciplines or agencies,
• Provide direct person-centred nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients on a shift-by-shift basis in a defined clinical area with increasing autonomy over time,
• Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
• Provide ward/team leader/coordination as required on a shift-by-shift basis. (A team leader is a RN assigned responsibility for supporting staff and coordinating patient/client care),
• Provide health promotion and education, to patients/clients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individual

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,
• Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to prioritise workload,
• Ability to be, creative, innovative, and flexible when approaching issues within a healthcare setting,
• Demonstrated commitment to providing consumer/client and family centred care,
• Demonstrated competence in mental health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Mark Wilcock, Nurse Manager, 0475 819 944, Mark.Wilcock@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 12 April 2026

Attachments:

• RN01 Role Description - Mental Health Post Grad 2026
• 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: 934115