Nurse Consultant

**Job no**: 893690
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Mental Health, Nursing/Midwifery
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Older Persons Mental Health Service - Modbury**:

- **Salary**: $125,183 - $130,779 p.a.**plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits** **- RN3**:

- **Temporary Full-Time, up to 4 July 2025**

**About the Role**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a Nurse Consultant to join our Older Persons Mental Health Service where you will play a vital role in delivering exceptional mental health care to the ageing population.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.

As a Nurse Consultant, you will be responsible for providing expert clinical leadership and guidance to the multidisciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care. Your primary duties will involve conducting comprehensive mental health assessments, developing and implementing individualised care plans and collaborating with other health professionals to ensure seamless service integration.

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, enthusiastic and experienced 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.

To excel in this role, you must possess exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to build rapport with clients, their families and healthcare professionals. Additionally, you should demonstrate a deep understanding of geriatric mental health issues, including dementia, depression and anxiety disorders.

**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: 893690**

**Enquiries**:
Katrina Robinson

Nurse Manager

Phone: 0435 962 408

**Application Closing Date**:
14 February 2025 **-** 11.55PM

**Role Description and Further Information**:
**Advertised**: 07 Feb 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 14 Feb 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time