About The Role
This role is located at The McKellar Mental Health & Wellbeing Centre (MH&WBC), a modern, purpose-built acute inpatient mental health facility. The service provides high-quality, recovery-oriented care for adults experiencing acute mental health challenges, with a strong focus on safety, engagement, and collaborative treatment planning. A multidisciplinary team works closely with consumers, families, carers, and community supports to promote stabilisation, wellbeing, and transition back to the community.
Your primary responsibility is to provide high quality, best practice direct delivery of psychiatric treatment and care to consumers (50+) as part of a multidisciplinary team operating within a holistic recovery-based model.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver best-practice psychiatric nursing care to consumers in an acute inpatient setting
* Support a recovery-oriented, trauma-informed model of care
* Contribute to multidisciplinary care planning and clinical reviews
* Administer medications in line with endorsement and clinical governance frameworks
* Demonstrate culturally safe and person-centred care, respecting individual values, beliefs, and backgrounds
* Support consumer engagement, safety, and therapeutic outcomes
What We Are Looking For
You are a motivated and compassionate Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse with a genuine interest in mental health and recovery-focused care. You value working as part of a multidisciplinary team and are committed to delivering safe, respectful, and person-centred care.
You bring strong communication skills, a willingness to grow your clinical capability, and an understanding of working within a structured mental health setting. Hold AHPRA registration as an Enrolled Nurse with medication endorsement.
Diversity and Inclusion
Barwon Health is an inclusive and welcoming employer, committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve. We value and celebrate people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities, family structures, and identities, and encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and members of the LGBTIQA+ community.
All Appointments Are Subject To
* Satisfactory Police Record Check
* Immunisation Status Clearance
* Working with Children Check (if applicable)
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