Clinical Nurse

**Job no**: 860239
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Nursing/Midwifery
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care - Modbury**:

- **Salary** $84,870 - $107,279 p.a.** **- RN/M2C; Permanent Full-Time
- 38 hours per week**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

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.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

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

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic 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.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills. which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

**About the Role**:
Are you a Mental Health Nurse who enjoys working as part of a team and is interested in working with individuals with intellectual disabilities?

An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Mental Health Nurse with the SA Intellectual Disability Health Service (SAIDHS). SAIDHS is the state-wide health service for adults with intellectual disabilities and complex care needs.

The SAIDHS Clinical Nurse Mental Health works in collaboration with the patient, their family, carers, NDIS providers, community clinicians, and other members of the SAIDHS interdisciplinary team, to effectively plan and provide healthcare services for people with intellectual disabilities. Working out of a community-based setting at Ingle Farm, the Clinical Nurse Mental Health provides clinical assessment and support in collaboration with SAIDHS clinicians and liaises with GPs and other primary health care providers.

To be eligible for this position, you must

**ESSENTIAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**

Educational/Vocational Qualifications
- Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
- Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice.

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)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- DHS Aged Care Sector Employment Screening

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

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