Mental Health Nurse
Visa sponsorship
Healthcare · Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Full-Time · $90,000 - $120,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
For a Registered Nurse who has built a career in psychiatric care, this Melbourne opening is a strong long-term step. A private mental health hospital is staffing its inpatient unit with permanent full-time nurses, caring for acutely unwell patients with complex needs inside a team of several disciplines, and offering room to grow in a specialist field.
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Key Responsibilities
- Carry out comprehensive mental health assessments
- Tailor nursing care to each patient and look after patients affected by anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or other conditions
- Evaluate risk
- Undertake mental state examinations and observe and monitor patients
- Take responsibility for administering medications and check how patients are responding to treatment
- Offer crisis intervention support
- Support recovery planning and use therapeutic engagement
- Collaborate with psychiatrists, psychologists, nursing colleagues and allied health staff
- Make sure clinical documentation is accurate
- Take part in planning patient discharge
Requirements & Eligibility
- Registered Nurse (qualified) who brings inpatient mental health or psychiatric nursing experience
- Registered with AHPRA or eligible to obtain Australian nursing registration
- Strong clinical assessment and risk management skills
- Communication skills that are strong
- Time spent working in acute mental health, adult psychiatry or specialist inpatient services
- Dedicated to recovery-focused, trauma-informed and person-centred care
- Hoping for employer sponsorship via the Subclass 482 visa
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