AddressCompany description:
Barwon Health
Job description:
- Multiple permanent roles available - full time and part time
- Build your career in a thriving service with strong support structures
- Develop your clinical skills at Victoria's largest regional healthcare provider
About Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services (MHDAS)
MHDAS provides integrated and recovery oriented mental health, drugs and alcohol assessment, treatment and community support to people of all ages within the Barwon region experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental health and drug & alcohol issues, and their families.
Our service is internationally recognised for its innovative clinical programs and integrated models of practice that are client centred, accessible and family inclusive. We are fortunate to enjoy terrific internal relationships and have developed excellent partnerships with the local community that provide for seamless integrated care for our clients.
MHDAS is entering a new phase of co-design of our service system with people who access our services and our wider community. This will build on our nationally recognized unique cultural approach to the challenges of recovery oriented service delivery to redesign our service system.
Swanston Centre Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Unit (SCA)
Our 32 bed acute psychiatric admission unit provides recovery orientated care delivery for people aged 16 and over, experiencing the effects of major mental illness/distress.
About you
- Registration with AHPRA as an Enrolled Nurse (Division 2)
- Medication endorsement
- Committed to providing Recovery Orientated service delivery
- Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 2022 and its amendments
- Previous experience in acute mental health nursing
- Sound knowledge of current psychiatric principles and practices
About the role
As the Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse, you will work under the supervision of the Registered Psychiatric Nurse and team leader. Duties include but are not limited to:
- Providing high quality, best practice direct delivery of psychiatric treatment and care to consumers
- Being part of the multidisciplinary team operating from a Recovery Orientated perspective
- Demonstrating respect for individual's values, customs and spiritual beliefs to ensure patient care is effective and culturally appropriate
Applicants may be contacted prior to this advertisement closing.
For a copy of the Position Description please email ***************@barwonhealth.org.au
What we offer
- Career progression and development opportunities within the team and across the service
- Access to 24/7 employee wellness facility
- EBA leave entitlements with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Great location - doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- Attractive salary packaging benefits!
- Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
- Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure
