Nurse Practitioner in Melbourne

Join our Community, Mental Health & Wellbeing team at our sites in the North and North West and make a meaningful difference in the lives of adults experiencing mental health challenges. These permanent, full-time roles offer the opportunity to provide comprehensive care while working alongside a supportive multidisciplinary team.

As a leader and Nurse Practitioner in our Adult Mental Health Services, you will be clinically and operationally responsible for 3 small acute community-based services responsible for providing triage, assessment and brief interventions for individuals experiencing acute mental health concerns. You'll work collaboratively with emergency services, emergency departments and mental health services, consumers and their families, to develop and implement trauma-informed treatment plans that promote recovery and wellbeing.

We offer a supportive work environment where professional development is encouraged and valued. You'll have access to ongoing training opportunities, flexible work arrangements, and comprehensive employee benefits. Our team is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are welcomed and respected. If you're passionate about mental health nursing and ready to contribute to positive outcomes for our community, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Integrating contemporary information and evidence with experience to support decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis.
• Applying and sharing expert clinical knowledge to improve the consumer’s care.
• Conducting comprehensive mental health assessments.
• Initiating and interpreting diagnostic pathology and/or radiology.
• Initiating short and medium-term psychotherapies and other treatments including psychotropic and other medications.
• Clinically managing consumers either directly or by delegation, including admitting and discharging from clinical settings.
• Communicating and developing treatment, safety, and management plans in collaboration with consumers, other relevant members of the health care team, and General Practitioners.
• Contributing clinical expertise to learning environments, which may include individual/team capability development and/or post-registration clinical teaching.

What You'll Bring:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner with AHPRA.
• Master Nurse Practitioner with specialisation in mental health.
• Postgraduate qualifications in mental health or psychiatric nursing.
• Significant experience working with all ages across the lifespan experiencing mental health concerns.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to person-centred care and recovery principles.
• Ability to work independently while contributing to team goals.

Details of appointment: Multiple Permanent full-time, day worker (with on call) position, working up to 76 hours per fortnight, commencing from as soon as you can join us. Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full-time, part-time, and casual vacancies.

Salary: $148,470 per annum (Pro rata). Our Employer 12% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount. Salary range is in accordance with Nurses and Midwives (Tasmania State Service) Agreement 2023. In addition, the following allowances calculated on the salaried incremental point may be available: Post Graduate Allowance of up to 7.5% based on qualification type.

Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:

• Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and endorsed to practice as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Completed a specialist tertiary graduate or postgraduate mental health/psychiatric nursing qualification.
• Current Working with Vulnerable People Registration.
• Current Driver’s Licence.

We encourage you to review the Statement of Duties, Applicant Guide, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and application guidance.

Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence are the key values to work in Department of Health. We strongly encourage applicants from key communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQA+ people, and people living with disabilities.