At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide mental health care to adolescents in a supportive inpatient environment.
- Company: Monash Health, a leading academic health service with over 175 years of experience.
- Benefits: Flexible work options, salary packaging, and comprehensive employee support programs.
- Other info: Join a passionate team dedicated to innovation and continuous improvement in mental health care.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in young people's lives while advancing your nursing career.
- Qualifications: Registered Nurse with AHPRA registration and postgraduate mental health qualifications.
The predicted salary is between 67500 - 82500 $ per year.
Monash Health exists to reimagine care, so that people can live their best lives. We provide safe and equitable care, for every stage of life, delivered with world-leading expertise and over 175 years of experience. As a leading academic health service, we're committed to providing tomorrow's care today by integrating research, teaching and training into everyday practice.
This is an exciting and rare opportunity for a qualified and experienced Mental Health Nurse to work within the Infant, Child and Youth Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Service, at our Stepping Stones Adolescent Inpatient Unit. This is a Full-Time or Part-Time Ongoing role, based at Monash Children's Hospital.
ICYAMHS provides a range of mental health services to infants, children, adolescents, youth and their families within the Southern Region. The organisational and clinical model has been developed to provide mental health care that is flexible and responsive to the individual and developmental needs of the infant-to-youth population and their families.
The Monash Children's Stepping Stones Adolescent Inpatient Unit is a 15-bed inpatient and five-transition (day) bed unit that offers care for adolescents aged 12 to 18 from the broader ELMHS. The Adolescent Unit offers mental health interventions to adolescents who present with acute and severe mental health problems and associated high-risk factors.
You are an experienced Mental Health Clinician with expertise in youth and adolescent mental health, including adolescent mental health nursing and milieu therapy. You have strong communication skills and work effectively with young people, families, and multidisciplinary teams. You will collaborate across the Infant, Child and Youth Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Service, provide shift-by-shift leadership within the unit, and contribute to the leadership team at Stepping Stones.
You are also well respected and highly regarded by peers and colleagues. Exceptional in communication and superior time-management skills. Genuinely passionate about mental health and nursing management. An advocate of Monash Health's Strategic Guiding Principles.
What you need:
- Registered Nurse with current registration with AHPRA.
- Postgraduate Mental Health Nursing qualifications, or relevant mental health nursing endorsement.
- Extensive experience within a mental health setting, ideally within an adolescent/youth mental health setting.
In return:
- A purpose-built inpatient unit located within Monash Children's Hospital.
- A leadership team fostering high-performing talent and career progression.
- Access to salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay.
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other staff benefits.
At Monash Health, our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our culture is inclusive, supportive and future-focused, underpinned by clear values and a commitment to continuous improvement.
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