• Eyre and Far North Local Health Network, Eyre Community Mental Health Team, Port Lincoln
• Salary: $125,183 - $130,779 p.a - RN/RM3
• Ongoing Full Time

Make a Difference in Mental Health – Join Our Team as Mental Health Consultation Liaison at Port Lincoln Hospital

Are you a passionate and experienced Mental Health Nurse looking to elevate your career and make a real impact in regional South Australia? Join our dedicated team at Port Lincoln Hospital Services as the Mental Health Consultation Liaison. In this pivotal role, you'll provide exceptional clinical care, mentoring, and educational support while collaborating with stakeholders across Rural and Remote Mental Health Services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver Expert Care: Provide direct clinical mental health care, implementing therapeutic interventions and managing individual cases.
• Support Integrated Care: Offer expert assessments and advice to local clinical teams, ensuring seamless care within a risk management framework.
• Autonomous Decision-Making: Exercise independent decision-making in your area of expertise, ensuring high-quality outcomes for consumers.
• Collaborate: Work alongside multidisciplinary teams to implement holistic care plans.
• Facilitate Discharge Planning: Play a key role in complex discharge planning and hospital avoidance, ensuring smooth transitions to community-based care.

What We’re Looking For:

• Qualifications: Registered Nurse with a Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing (or equivalent).
• Experience: At least 3 years post-registration experience in mental health nursing, with expertise in supervision and leadership.
• Skills: Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to foster staff development and drive change.
• Cultural Awareness: Ability to engage with Aboriginal communities in a culturally appropriate manner.

About Us

With its ancient outback landscapes, boutique vineyards, oyster farms and Australia’s best-kept-secret surf coast, Eyre and Far North will inspire and energise you.

The Eyre and Far North Local Health Network (EFNLHN) is responsible for the planning and delivery of hospital and health services over 337,626 square kilometres, taking in the Eyre Peninsula, western part of South Australia and north to Coober Pedy. We are one of the largest LHNs by area in Australia and communities include Ceduna, Cleve, Coober Pedy, Cowell, Cummins, Elliston, Kimba, Oodnadatta, Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay, Tumby Bay and Wudinna.

Services include acute care, medical, accident and emergency, surgery, birthing and midwifery, specialist consultancy, renal dialysis, chemotherapy, transfusions, rehabilitation, residential and community aged care, respite care, transitional care packages, Aboriginal health, mental health, allied health, community health, community nursing, palliative care, community home support packages and home modifications.

Click here to learn more about living and working in Eyre and Far North Local Health Network.

Applicant Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working 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 appropriate immunisation requirements.

Check(s)

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances) etc.

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: 882317

Enquiries

Sally Dennis
Phone: (08) 7669 1343
Position: EA to Director Mental Health & Director Corporate
E-mail: [email protected]

Application Closing Date

23 March 2025, 11:55PM

Attachments

882317 RN-M3 Role Description.pdf

JCS+RegisteredNurse+Mental+Health+final.pdf

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