Psychiatric Nurse Specialist

2 weeks ago

Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia Ballarat Health Services Full time
About the Role

The Central Allocations Unit at Ballarat Health Services has opportunities for Endorsed Enrolled Nurses to join our team. The Mental Health casual bank offers the opportunity to work across various settings, including Adult Acute Unit, Parent and Infant Unit, PARC, SECU (Sovereign House), and Steel Haughton Unit.

Ballarat Health Services is a dynamic service striving to provide high-quality treatment for the community, while maintaining a commitment to a continuously improving clinical environment.

This is a great opportunity to develop discipline-specific skills in a recovery-focused environment, where a client-centered, family-focused approach is emphasized. You will have the opportunity to work in your area of interest and enhance your skills in mental health.

To maintain your position with the Central Allocations Unit, a commitment of 2 shifts per fortnight is required. The casual bank is managed by the Central Allocations Unit, which operates 7 days a week. Grampians Health uses an electronic rostering system that matches staff for shifts based on their availabilities via text/phone call.

Key Responsibilities
  • Caring for a diverse range of patients and residents in varied care settings
  • Providing high-quality, direct care within the scope of practice
  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve positive, patient-focused outcomes
  • Completing mental state exams and risk assessments for consumers
  • Completing medication administration in adherence to overarching governance
  • Undertaking tasks under the direction of NUM/ANUM/RPN on shift
  • Documentation and updating of care plans/patient records
  • Providing accurate and timely communication with residents, visitors, and staff at all levels within Grampians Health
  • Maintaining accurate availability in our electronic rostering system and accepting shifts based on availability
Skills and Experience
  • Prior experience/placement in a Mental Health setting
  • Demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills
  • Ability to function within a team
  • Current AHPRA Registration
  • Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to obtain if working in Care Community
  • Current Working with Children Check, or willingness to obtain

To see a full copy of the Position Description, please click here.

We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.

About Grampians Health

Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham, and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities.

Ballarat Region

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state's fastest-growing inland city. Dubbed Australia's most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first-class education, fine dining, and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo, and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia's most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

Diversity and Inclusion

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance, and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child-safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature-age workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual LGBTQIA+ individuals.

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