Job Opportunity: Mental Health Nurse
Nunkuwarrin Yunti, a leading health organization, aims to promote and deliver improvement in the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families.
The organization places a strong focus on a client-centered approach to the delivery of services and a collaborative working culture to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients.
Key Responsibilities
The Mental Health Nurse will utilize comprehensive triage assessments following the Nursing and Mental Health stepped care response model, service mapping, and evidence-based mental health plans to implement a flexible system with effective interventions.
* Provide program coordination of mental health service delivery within Primary Care Services.
* Triage assessment of current and new referrals using the Nursing and Mental Health stepped care response assessment tool.
* Provide evidence-based client care and services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with severe mental disorders and support their families and carers.
* Work collaboratively to engage, improve, and maintain links with GPs and psychiatrists, and other service providers, including allied health professionals, and liaise with external agencies to deliver best practice psycho-social services.
* Use available information systems and best practice evidence to inform program planning and clinical decision-making, and to evaluate outcomes.
* Operate within a professional practice framework appropriate to the position and role.
Essential Skills and Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess:
* Registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia via Australian Health Practitioner Registration Authority (AHPRA), with at least three (3) years post-registration experience.
* Qualifications and experience in mental health nursing are essential.
* Extensive experience working in an Aboriginal primary health care setting and an understanding of how various issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may impact their health.
* Demonstrated experience working effectively with Aboriginal people living with severe mental health disorders and comorbidities, including drug and alcohol misuse.
* Excellent organizational and time management skills and the ability to operate autonomously with limited direct supervision.
* Ability to work under pressure in a busy workplace environment, to assess priorities, and meet deadlines, and respond appropriately to difficult and/or stressful situations in a calm, sensitive, and professional manner.
* Demonstrated ability to deliver a high level of professional judgment and clinical competence in evidence-based mental health service delivery and care coordination, and a sound understanding of clinical governance.
* Demonstrated competence setting client-centered goals and strategies using the best available evidence.
Desirable qualifications include experience working, setting up, and coordinating in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service, and an understanding of the social determinants of health.