AddressExciting opportunity to join a motivated team working with consumers with ongoing Mental Health Challenges in the Community, providing support, assessment, and patient centred care.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $1,342.50 - $1,884.90 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ489222
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
Where you'll be working
Brookvale Community Health Centre, the Northern Beaches Community Mental Health Service (NBCMHS) comprises of different Community services, working in multidisciplinary teams comprised of Nurse, psychologists, Occupational therapists, Social Workers, and Psychiatrists. This ensures consumers and carers are offered a broad range of knowledge and experience in all aspects of Mental Health.
What you'll be doing
The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care.
MHDA Declaration
Each person’s unique journey of recovery will be supported by Mental Health drug and alcohol services in a way that fosters hope, purpose and resilience.
MHDA Statement of Intention
The intention of the NSLHD MHDA is to provide recovery-oriented, trauma informed services that are guided by evidence based practices and collaboration.
Working autonomously and with a team, the aim is to install hope, promote wellbeing and support recovery in the lives of adults living in the Northern Beaches area who are living with Mental Health challenges. The Outreach Team Care Coordinates consumers, ensuring they can develop their recovery and personal goals collaboratively.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
- Registered Nurse – Division 1 with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Current Mental Health, drug and alcohol clinical knowledge and clinical problem solving ability.
- A commitment to excellence in Mental Health nursing practice and continuing professional development.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
- An understanding of the professional, ethical and legal requirements of the Registered Nurse.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in the use of information technology systems.
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For role related queries or questions contact Katy Letch on **********@health.nsw.gov.au or 02 9388 5*** / 0488 493 ***.
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
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Applications Close: 25 June 2024
