Clinical Nurse

**Job no**: 886944
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Mental Health, Nursing/Midwifery
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Forensic Mental Health Service - Modbury**:

- **Salary**: $84,870 - $107,279 p.a.** **plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits** **- RN2C**:

- **Ongoing Full-Time**

**About the Role**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a Clinical Nurse to join the Prison Assessment and Consultation Team (PACT).

This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture. In this key position you will demonstrate your experience and previous success working as a Registered Mental Health Nurse to ensure high quality care is delivered to our consumers.

The Prison Assessment and Consultation Team is a specialist state-wide service which endeavours to identify and treat mental health disorders among consumers in custody/prison. As a Clinical Nurse in the PACT team, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality mental health care to individuals in the correctional system. You will be responsible for conducting comprehensive assessments, developing treatment plans and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for your patients.

To succeed in this role, you must possess excellent clinical skills, a strong commitment to patient-centred care and the ability to work effectively in a secure environment. You will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals who may have complex mental health needs and challenging backgrounds.

To be eligible for this position, you must be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and hold, or be eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate. Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**:

- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (e.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is **-** Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job Ref: 886944**

**Enquiries**:
Shelagh Latham

Nurse Manager

Phone: 0434 852 428

**Application Closing Date**:
6 December 2024 **-** 11.55PM

**Role Description**:
**Advertised**: 22 Nov 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time