At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide high-quality mental health services to ADF personnel across Australia.
- Company: Join Serco, a leader in integrated healthcare for Defence Force personnel.
- Benefits: Flexible contracts, paid training, travel expenses covered, and daily allowances.
- Other info: Explore Australia while growing your clinical skills in a unique setting.
- Why this job: Embark on a rewarding adventure while making a real difference in healthcare.
- Qualifications: Registered Nurse with mental health experience and AHPRA registration.
The predicted salary is between 67500 - 82500 $ per year.
Your Career, Your Adventure — Build Your Contract Career Adventure with Serco! An exciting career that offers both flexibility and adventure while you travel! Multiple positions available, applications accepted from anywhere in Australia! Enjoy 2 weeks minimum training in your first contract!
About Us: ADF Health Services provides integrated healthcare services to Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel across Australia. As part of this contract, Serco, in partnership with Bupa, provide defence-ready clinical and support staff across 50+ on-base locations nationally, ensuring that ADF personnel have access to quality on-site medical care.
Build Your Contract Career Adventure with Serco! Turn your clinical skills into a flexible, rewarding adventure. As a Fly-In Fly-Out (FIFO) Locum health professional, you’ll travel to any of 55 Defence Health Centre locations across Australia to deliver vital healthcare services to ADF personnel. Serco gives you the chance to grow your career and ADF knowledge while exploring the country.
Choose Your Schedule: Enjoy true flexibility with contract options from 1 week to 3 months – ideal for balancing lifestyle, career goals, and travel.
Start-Up with Success: Kick off your journey with a 2+ week paid training to set you up for success. We take care of all the essentials — flights, accommodation, car hire, plus a daily living allowance while you train and for all your subsequent contracts. Rest assured, you’ll be fully equipped to thrive in the ADF clinical setting.
Level-Up Your Experience: From Army to Navy to Air Force — you’ll gain exposure to the full spectrum of military healthcare, building deep knowledge, specialised skills, and unique insight into defence medicine. It’s a powerful way to advance your career while exploring some of the most fascinating parts of the country.
Why Choose Serco Locum Careers?
- National FIFO roles across Australia – choose adventure for your career!
- Flexibility to match your lifestyle
- Grow your clinical skills in a truly unique setting
- Travel, explore, and earn – with full support along the way
- Work that matters: support those who serve
- Daily allowance, $50p/day for food and expenses
- Paid travel including flights, accommodation, and car hire for your convenience!
About the Role: You will be an integral member of an experienced multi-disciplinary health care team providing a range of high-quality evidence-based health services to patients.
About You: You are a dedicated nurse who is committed to providing the highest quality healthcare and is particularly passionate about general health. With an ability to put patients at ease, your warmth and care is one of your greatest attributes and you understand the importance of this in making a difference to those in need of health services. You are a respectful and professional person who demonstrates exceptional moral values in everything you do. You are passionate about providing health services and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support delivery of the highest standard of care to patients.
To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Have:
- The highest levels of personal integrity and ethical behaviour.
- The ability to complete 2 weeks full time minimum for training in first contract.
- Commitment to consistently complete a minimum of 2-week full time contracts in a 3-month period (either x2 one week block or x1 two-week blocks).
- A current Australian Citizenship in order to obtain an AGSVA baseline security clearance as a requirement of the role.
- Unrestricted AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse.
- One of the following: ACMHN credentialed Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing, Mental Health trained nurse / UK trained undergraduate Mental Health Nurse.
- Minimum two years’ Post RN general registration experience within last five years in mental health within a Primary Healthcare Setting or Specialist Mental Health Setting.
- Comprehensive assessment skills and experience in ‘Focussed Psychological Strategies’ and ‘Psychological Therapy’ as per Medicare Schedule.
Ready to turn your next contract into a career adventure? Start building your career – and adventure – with Serco.
For a confidential chat, please contact Manisha Kumar via Manisha.Kumar@serco-ap.com
Serco and Proud: Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day. We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
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