Mental Health Registered Nurse - Fixed-term and Casual Employment Register
Tasmanian Government
- Australia
- $75,902-102,908 per year
- Contract
- Full-time
- We are privileged to walk alongside our consumers, their friends and families in their recovery journey, nurses working in mental health describe a real sense of 'making a difference' in their day to day work.
- No two days are the same in mental health. Some days may be structured with planned appointments or 1:1 time, others may involve responding to an emergency and thinking on your feet.
- There are opportunities to work in a wide variety of settings including those that provide supervision and those that require a high degree of autonomy.
- The Tasmanian Mental Health Reform Program will expand and redesign mental health services, adopting a 'no wrong door' approach. The next two years will see the opening of integrated care hubs in collaboration with our community sector partners, drawing on the Safe Haven Café and Recovery College models. We are enhancing our response to suicidal distress and acute needs and opening new 24-hour community-based beds.
- You will need your core nursing skills including critical thinking, nursing assessment, care planning, monitoring and observation and medication safety.
- You must be compassionate and empathic.
- Be an effective communicator able to establish therapeutic relationships with consumers and their friends and families.
- Be self-aware and use reflective practice.
- Be interested in people from all walks of life and have a non-judgemental attitude.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills including active listening.
- Have the ability to remain calm and use de-escalation skills.
- We welcome those with sound general nursing skills - mental health consumers face significant physical health disparities that we are seeking to address through improved physical health monitoring and intervention.
- We are a friendly and relatively small service providing opportunities to follow the career path of your choice across a range of closely allied services.
- Flexible working arrangements - opportunities to work part-time or occasional shifts.
- We are improving access to core mental health nursing skills training including the Connecting with People suicide mitigation approach.
- We will work with you to identify which service areas are a good match for your skill set, track your progress and explore developmental opportunities with you.
- Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse