Closes: 02 December 2025
Classification: Registered Nurse Level 3.1
Salary: $126,196 - $131,177 plus superannuation
Position No: ORX
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 18 November 2025
Contact Officer: Jody Alexander on
What can we offer you:
* City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
* Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
* Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
* Flexible working conditions.
* Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
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About the Role:
The role of a Senior Registered Nurse acknowledges the skills, knowledge and capabilities of highly experienced health professionals to address a specialised service need. Registered Nurses at the RN3.1 designation, possess a level of clinical practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex clinical decision-making, integrating the four advanced practice pillars of clinical practice, leadership, education, and research to provide complex care in partnership with a range of stakeholders.
This Co-Occurring Needs Program Senior Registered Nurse will be co-located in the North Canberra Hospital (NCH) Mental Health Consultation-Liaison Service and deliver services in alignment with the ADS Co-Occurring Needs Program. Clinical responsibilities and governance processes will be underpinned by the ADS Specialty Services Models of Care and Operational Procedures, and Co-Occurring Needs Program workflows. Under limited direction of the Co-Occurring Needs Program Clinical Lead, Senior Registered Nurses within the Co-Occurring Needs Program engage in consultation, liaison, education and clinical advice to MHJHADS programs regarding best practice for the integrated treatment and support of people experiencing co-occurring substance use and mental ill-health concerns. This involves supporting implementation of the MHJHADS Co-Occurring Needs Action and Implementation Plans and participating in associated monitoring and evaluation of services provided to people who present with co-occurring needs.
This Co-Occurring Needs Program Senior Registered Nurse will report operationally to the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) Mental Health Division NCH; with day-to-day task allocation, rostering, and other operational matters performed with ADON's oversight. The role involves regular liaison and collaborative work with other NCH inpatient and MHJHADS program areas, government and non-government services in the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) and mental health sectors, and other external stakeholders.
In particular, the Senior Registered Nurse in this role will support delivery of consultation-liaison ATOD assessment and advice to wards within the NCH, alongside delivering related education to NCH staff through provision of in-services to the NCH Emergency Department, Maternity, Intensive Care Unit, Medical Teams, and at NCH Orientations. They will also deliver integrated mental health and ATOD psychoeducation and group-based interventions to people admitted to inpatient mental health settings at the NCH (i.e., Acacia and Banksia) and UCH (i.e., Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit).
Co-Occurring Needs Program staff are required and supported to undertake professional development, engage in clinical supervision, participate in quality improvement and service development initiatives, and contribute to multidisciplinary team processes.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
* Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
* Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
* Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for Registered Nurses.
Note: A merit pool may be established from this recruitment process and will be used for the next 12 months to fill various positions both on a temporary and permanent basis with full-time and part-time opportunities available.
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Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory's history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.
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