Casual Rpn3

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Casual

Organisation: Forensicare

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Policy, Prison and Corrective Services, Nursing

Reference: 15541
- Casual opportunity for Registered Psychiatric Nurses Grade 3
- Based across our Prison Services (Melbourne Assessment Prison, Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Ravenhall and Port Phillip Prison)
- Diverse and supportive environments

**Job location**

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.

Completed in 2017, the new medium-security men's prison is located at Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne's west, providing world-class forensic mental health services in Victoria in a purpose-built state of the art facility developed to international best practice standards.

The services provided by Forensicare address the needs of offenders experiencing mental health issues, the mental health sector, the justice sector and the general community. The Mobile Forensic Mental Health Service (MobileFMHS)?is a multidisciplinary team that provides specialist mental health?assessment and treatment services to prisoners. This position is based at the Metropolitan Remand Centre, Ravenhall Correctional Centre, Karreenga Prison, Lara, and Marngoneet Correctional Centre, Lara.

Forensicare provides specialist mental health services at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in the Marrmak Unit, a 20-bed residential program for women prisoners with an intensive outreach program and a therapeutic day program. There is a strong focus on providing a healing environment not only for people in prisons, but importantly also one that supports the well-being and safety of all staff. This approach recognises that many women who are imprisoned are also victims of crime and have challenging mental health conditions as a result. The word Marrmak is from the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people meaning ‘safe’.

St Paul’s Unit is a 30-bed psychosocial rehabilitation service that provides specialist, voluntary mental health care, treatment and therapeutic programs to prisoners with a mental health diagnosis. Participants selected for the program require psychosocial rehabilitation to minimise risk of relapse and enhance their social functioning in preparation for returning to general prison environment or release to community.

Forensicare provides a detailed reception mental health screening assessment for every prisoner received into custody at the Melbourne Assessment Prison in Spencer Street, West Melbourne; outpatient clinics to mentally ill prisoners within the prison; a 16-bed acute assessment unit which provides initial assessment and treatment to seriously mentally ill prisoners; an after
- hours mental health crisis intervention service; and consultancy and training services for prison and service staff on the treatment and management of male prisoners with mental health issues.

**About the Role**:
The Mental Health Nurse (RPN3) delivers care within a custodial setting, practicing within a recovery framework and using sound judgement to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and maintain a high standard of patient care. In doing so, the Mental Health Nurse recognises the needs of the individual within the boundaries set by the profession, Forensicare and correctional services.

**Duties**:

- Delivery of high quality care coordination, 'At Risk' assessments and provision of individual and group programs
- Administer and monitor the effects of medical interventions
- Maintain comprehensive, patient focused, clinical documentation

**About You**:

- Demonstrated thorough working knowledge of current standards of practice, contemporary mental health nursing practices and relevant legislation.
- Proven knowledge, skills and experience in mental health nursing preferably within a custodial setting.
- Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery.
- Demonstrated comprehensive risk assessments skills and ability to plan and implement risk management plans.

**What you need**:
Nursing
- Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent.
- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulations Agency (AHPRA).

**A culture where people matter.**
- Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of managers and supervisors.
- Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
- A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
- Access to an employee assistance program - an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
- A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological support, peer support and critical incidence response programs, as