Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse

Company description:

Grampians Health exists to serve our communities across the Grampians region, providing complete care as close as possible to people's homes.

Job description:

About the Role

The Central Allocations Unit has opportunities for Enrolled Nurses to join our team. The Mental Health casual bank offers the opportunity to work across:

• Adult Acute Unit
• Parent and Infant Unit
• PARC
• SECU (Sovereign House)
• Steel Haughton Unit

Ballarat Mental Health Services is a dynamic service striving to provide the highest standards of treatment for the City of Ballarat and local surrounding communities while maintaining a commitment to a continuously improving clinical environment.

This is a great opportunity to join a team where you will develop discipline-specific skills in a recovery-focused environment where a client-centered, family-focused approach is emphasised, 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.

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.

Please upload a cover letter, resume and any role-specific qualifications to be considered for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Caring for a diverse range of patients and residents in varied care settings
• Ability and willingness to provide high-quality, direct care within the scope of practice
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to achieve positive, patient-focused outcomes
• Complete mental state exams and risk assessments for consumers
• Complete medication administration in adherence to overarching governance
• Undertake tasks under the direction of NUM / ANUM / RPN on shift
• Documentation and updating of care plans/patient records
• Provide 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 a Care Community
• Current Working with Children Check, or willingness to obtain

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Interested?

Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact the CAU Recruitment Team on or for a confidential discussion.

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. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

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. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat

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+.