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Join our SALHN Mental Health Services (MHS) Team!

If you're a Registered or Clinical Nurse with a commitment to person-centred mental health care, this ongoing full-time role offers the clinical depth, multidisciplinary support, and sense of purpose that makes a career genuinely rewarding.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role delivers high-quality inpatient mental health nursing care as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

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.
• Participate in clinical teaching, overseeing learning experience, and goal setting for students, new staff and staff with less experience.
• Integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, evidence from a range of sources and own experience to devise and achieve agreed patient/client care outcomes.
• Promote continuity and consistency of care in collaboration with the Nurse/Midwife Unit Manager or equivalent of the ward/unit/service. 

About you:

• Registered as a Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia 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. 
• 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.

Please see the attached Role Descriptions for additional information.

This is a single vacancy, with two possible appointment classifications. The successful applicants will be appointed in the position appropriate to their skills, qualifications, and experience.

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

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 23rd August 2026

Attachments:

• Registered Nurse 4GP Role Description
• Clinical Nurse 4GP 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: 947522