Get paid while you study! This is an exciting opportunity to join the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Registered Nurse in the Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program 2026.

Join SA Health's prestigious Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program at Flinders Medical Centre, where you'll specialise in mental health nursing while making a real difference in patients' recovery journeys. This part-time contract position offers structured professional development, expert mentorship, and the opportunity to work within South Australia's leading healthcare network until January 2027. Advance your nursing career with comprehensive training, flexible arrangements, and access to cutting-edge mental health practices in a supportive, collaborative environment.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for providing specialised mental health nursing care to patients while participating in a structured graduate diploma program that develops your clinical skills and expertise in contemporary mental health practices.

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,
• Provide, with increasing capacity over time, support and guidance to newer or less experienced staff, Enrolled Nurses, student nurses and other workers providing basic nursing care

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,
• Demonstrated competence in mental health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Qualifications relevant to speciality / clinical area

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Positions are available across Flinders Medical Centre, Noarlunga Health Precinct, Repat Health Precinct, Glenside Health Services, Marion and Noarlunga GP Plus. 

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

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 14 September 2025

Attachments:

• Registered Nurse - Graduate Diploma Mental Health Program 2026 Intake- 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: 914226