Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Repat Health Precinct– Older Persons Mental Health Salary $125,183- $130,779 p.a. (Pro Rata) RN/M3| Full Time Temporary 3-Month Contract Extraordinary Career Opportunity: Mental Health Nurse Consultant/Practitioner Make a lasting impact on the mental health of your community by joining SALHN. In this pivotal role, you'll provide exceptional evidence-based care, conduct assessments, and develop tailored treatment plans for individuals facing mental health challenges. Leverage your expertise and compassion to uplift lives and contribute to improving mental health services. About the role: Reporting to the Nursing Director, or Team Manager, this role will be involved in providing clinical nursing/midwifery expertise for specified individual patients/clients and/or groups/populations, and/or provide clinical leadership for an area of practice and may work in a variety of clinical settings. Duties for the role will include: Provide direct, expert clinical nursing/midwifery care, select and implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management to a defined population of patients/clients and evaluate progress, Use available information systems: to inform decision making, to implement and co-ordinate processes for quality improvement, to monitor and analyse incidents and accidents, to ensure quality and safety is not compromised, to evaluate outcomes and convey information to staff, Lead nursing/midwifery clinical practice within the professional practice framework established by the Director of Nursing/Midwifery and/or lead a multidisciplinary team About you: Registered as a Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds a current practicing certificate. Must be enrolled in an approved mental health course or hold a qualification in mental health practice, Registered Nurse and or Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience, Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience, Demonstrated competence in Mental Health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards, Please see the attached Role Description for additional information. Want To Know More? Contact: Sharon Brown, Team Manager Older Person Mental Health Service, (08) 7117 5037, Sharon.Brown@sa.gov.au Application Closing Date: 5 pm Friday 27th June 2025 Attachments: 907367- RN03 Nurse Consultant or Nurse Practitioner Candidate- OPMHS- RHP- Role Description Australian applicant guidelines International applicant guidelines Applicant Information: We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging. The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description. SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 907367