Nurse unit manager - imhiu

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Work type: Full time
Location: South East
Categories: Nursing/Midwifery

• Ongoing | Full-Time
• RN3 | $130,190 min - $136,190 max p.a.
• 12% Superannuation | Leave Loading | Salary Sacrifice
• Integrated Mental Health Inpatient Unit, Limestone Coast Local Health Network, Mount Gambier

Nurse Unit Manager – Integrated Mental Health Inpatient Unit (IMHIU)

Join the Limestone Coast Local Health Network as a Nurse Unit Manager (RN/M3) and lead the delivery of high-quality, person-centred mental health care within the Integrated Mental Health Inpatient Unit. This pivotal leadership role offers the opportunity to shape service excellence, drive innovation, and support positive outcomes for consumers, families, and carers.

As Nurse Unit Manager, you will provide operational leadership and line management to a multidisciplinary team including nurses, allied health professionals, lived experience staff, rehabilitation workers, and administrative personnel. You will be responsible for coordinating evidence-based care, managing resources, fostering a positive workplace culture, and ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and recovery-oriented services.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Integrated Mental Health Inpatient Unit, ensuring safe, high-quality, consumer-centred care.
• Provide leadership and supervision to a multidisciplinary team, promoting collaboration and positive workplace culture.
• Oversee workforce management, including recruitment, rostering, performance, and staff development.
• Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, risk management, and service excellence initiatives.
• Manage operational resources, budgets, and unit performance.
• Foster consumer, carer, and lived experience participation in service delivery and improvement.
• Support education, mentoring, clinical supervision, and professional development of staff.
• Lead change management and implementation of evidence-based models of care.
• Build strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to enhance integrated mental health services.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, standards, policies, and professional practice requirements.

About the Limestone Coast Local Health Network

The Limestone Coast Local Health Network (LCLHN) delivers essential health services to more than 67,000 people across South Australia's south-east, while also supporting communities in Western Victoria. With over 1,400 staff and approximately 250 volunteers, LCLHN is a major regional employer committed to safe, high-quality, and community-focused care.

Our services extend from the Victorian border to the iconic Limestone Coast, delivering acute, community, and aged care services across a diverse network of sites. Working at LCLHN means being part of an organisation that plays a vital role in the health and wellbeing of its communities.

Beyond the work, LCLHN offers an exceptional lifestyle in one of Australia's most liveable regional destinations, where professional impact is matched with genuine work–life balance.

Conditions of Employment

• A current Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups is required for this position.
• Working With Children's Check, South Australia (WWCC)
• Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

The Limestone Coast Local Health Network is committed to building a flexible, diverse and inclusive culture, planning for and promoting diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as well as diverse community groups and ages including LGBTQI+, people living with a disability and other diversity groups. The LCLHN recognises the benefits that such an approach brings for our staff and consumers in being an employer of choice.

Applications to be submitted before 11:59pm (ACDT) Sunday, 28 June 2026.