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Job reference: 852774
Location: 5112 - ELIZABETH
Job status: Short Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Forensic Mental Health - Modbury
- Salary: $117,997 - $123,272 p.a. - RN/M3;
- Temporary Full-Time- up until 7 June 2024
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 dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic 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.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Nurse Consultant within the Forensic Court Assessment and Diversion Unit.
The successful applicant will use their clinical knowledge and experience to provide the pivotal coordination of patient/client care delivery in a patient/client care area within a Health Unit/Community Service. The role is responsible for the co-ordination of assessment of consumers scheduled to appear in Magistrates Courts in South Australia to achieve continuity and quality of patient/client care and outcomes.
This role assists the Attorney General Dept of SA and provides advice to Magistrates courts around consumers who are to appear before the courts, with the aim to assist in the reduction of 269 orders being issued against persons for minor offences and then refer them back to the Forensic Service. Various practice models may be used to enact this role, including but not limited to Court Diversion models used in other states in Australia.
Employees in this role accept accountability for the outcomes of nursing/midwifery practices and/or multidisciplinary outcomes in the specific practice setting; for addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy; and for developing team performance and a positive work culture in the interest of patient/client outcomes.
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.
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 who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate, enrolled in an approved Mental Health course or holds 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.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving no contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (general employment)
SA Health Services are required to implement the in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 852774
Enquiries
Shelagh Latham
Nurse Manager
Phone: 0434 852 428
E-mail:
Application Closing Date
12 January 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
- Refer to the SA Health Career Website - for further information
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.
