Associate Nurse Unit Manager

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:

$54.87 per hour + salary packaging | Associate Nurse Unit Manager - Secure Extended Care Unit (SECU)

Permanent Full Time - 80 hours per fortnight with monthly ADO

About the Role

Join our supportive Mental Health team at SECU in Ballarat, a specialist bed-based unit providing longer term care for consumers requiring further stabilisation and rehabilitation. This permanent ANUM role offers the opportunity to step into a dynamic leadership position, providing evidence-based, person centred, and recovery oriented care. You'll work closely with the NUM and multidisciplinary team to lead clinical practice, quality improvement, and staff development.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical oversight and leadership across SECU

• Supervise biopsychosocial assessments and risk plans

• Promote best-practice, recovery-focused mental health care

• Support quality improvement and professional development

• Coordinate shift management and supervise nursing staff

• Ensure compliance with MHWA 2022 and NSQHS standards

Skills & Experience

• Registered with AHPRA as a Psychiatric Nurse

• Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing

• Strong leadership, communication, and conflict resolution skills

• Advanced knowledge of mental illness, recovery and psychotropics

• Experience in bed-based or inpatient mental health settings

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Interested?

Click APPLY, or to discuss the role confidentially, contact Samantha Giles, NUM - SECU on / or email

Job applications close 24th of September 2025 at 11.59PM.

This position is paid in accordance with the Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement.

The classification is Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3 which ranges from $51.07- $56.72 per hour, depending on experience level.

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.

Culture & Benefits

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Access to Fitness Passport membership
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

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 InclusionAll 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+.