Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 - Mental Health Inpatient Unit - Bega
About The Service: Join Our Inpatient Mental Health Nursing Team - Provide Compassionate Care When It Matters Most. Are you ready to make a powerful impact on patients’ mental health journeys in an inpatient setting?
At Bega, our Mental Health Nurses on the inpatient ward provide critical, compassionate care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises. Your expertise and empathy will be essential in helping patients stabilise, recover, and prepare for their next steps.
Be part of a team that changes lives every day.
What You'll Be Doing : The Clinical Nurse Specialist, using best practice evidence provides person-centered specialist nursing care at an advanced practice level for the designated speciality in collaboration with individual/s and the multidisciplinary health care team. Provides clinical leadership, support and supervision for less experienced clinicians to achieve people focused quality care.
- Selection Criteria : Current Registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse and relevant post-registration qualifications in Mental Health with a minimum of three years' experience working in the clinical speciality.
- Demonstrated competencies in and knowledge of the complexities and challenges involved in providing speciality nursing care in the context of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate ability to exercise extended autonomy in clinical decision making capabilities and leadership in the development of nursing specialty practice advancement.
- Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology, written and verbal means and sound interpersonal skills with the capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner.
- Demonstrated knowledge and application of evidence based practice and critical thinking to advocate for and implement individualised person-centred care at an extended role level with a commitment to quality improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise, delegate, and negotiate with others to deliver quality nursing care with a willingness to show leadership and embrace change in the coordination and delivery of care.
- Evidence of participation in own professional development, a commitment to maintaining competence and enhancement of Mental Health skills with a willingness to apply and share professional expertise as a resource person and mentor others within the speciality.
Support for Applicants : Applicants for this position may qualify for the NSW Health Rural Health Workforce Incentives Scheme (RHWIS). We offer working within SNSWLHD, Sustainable Healthcare, salary packaging options, Health and Wellbeing benefits including Fitness Passport, and annual Influenza vaccinations. A team that values your expertise, invests in your development and supports your lifestyle.
- Salary packaging options
- Health and Wellbeing benefits including Fitness Passport, and annual Influenza vaccinations
- A team that values your expertise, invests in your development and supports your lifestyle
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We are an equal chance employer, committed to fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated, inclusion is part of everyday practice, and our people are supported to succeed. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, LGBTIQ+ people, and others who bring diverse experiences and perspectives to our workforce.
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📌 Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 - Mental Health Inpatient Unit - Bega
🏢 NSW Health
📍 Bega