• Casual Registered Psychiatric Nurse (Grade 2) Positions available!
• Range of available shifts including AMs, PMs and Night Duties.
• Friendly and supportive team environment

About the Role
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne is seeking a number of passionate and experienced Psychiatric Nurses (RPN Grade 2) to join the Nurse Workforce Unit's Casual Nurse Bank team, to work within our acute adult inpatient mental health unit.

• Completing mental health risk assessments including visual observations and mental status examinations for patients
• Administering medication, including PRNs for behaviour escalation
• Calling and being involved in emergency codes for behaviour that is unable to be managed with de-escalation techniques (eg code greys)
• Vital signs monitoring and medical escalation where appropriate
• Involvement with ECU high dependency patients who are in the crisis stage of their mental health illness
• Working together with patients to encourage independence and control over their mental health issues
• Discharge planning, care plan planning, working with multidisciplinary team

Classifications for this role will range between NP22 - NP70 ($68,754 - $87,282 per annum pro rata)

About You and Your Contribution

You will be a passionate, motivated Nurse who enjoys variety in their work and are excited by the prospect of growing as a professional through developing your clinical skills and knowledge. Your strong interpersonal skills will see you work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. You understand and are interested in the complex and varied needs of our consumer population and driven to provide the best care possible.

• Current condition free nursing registration with AHPRA.
• Current National criminal history check or willingness to obtain
• Current NDIS check or willingness to obtain
• Demonstrated minimum 3 years knowledge and experience in psychiatric nursing, in adult acute mental health settings.
• Postgraduate qualification in mental health nursing preferred but not essential.

What we Offer
We passionately believe in a recovery approach, based on people's personal strengths. We believe that people have the capacity to recover, reclaim and transform their lives and we nurture and develop our staff with great opportunities for training and career progression.

• Salary Packaging
• Employee Assistance Program
• Career development & advancement encouraged
• Culture of continuous improvement
• Work life balance through flexible rostering
• Great location, with easy access to public transport and to the city of Melbourne with trams, buses and trains on the doorstop of the hospital and a vibrant, active social scene close by

About the Mental Health Department
St Vincent's is proud of its reputation for the delivery of Mental Health Services. The Mental Health Service includes a 44 bed adult acute inpatient unit including:

• Koori state-wide Inpatient Mental Health Service
• Crisis Assessment Teams and Mobile Support Teams
• ED Mental Health and Psychiatric Triage
• Prevention and Recovery Care Service (PARC)
• Footbridge Community Care Unit
• HOPE (suicide prevention)
• Clarendon Homeless Outreach Psychiatric Service (CHOPS)

We work collaboratively with peer workers, consumer and carer-consultants and Aboriginal Liaison Officers. Everyone receives training in Strengths and support to participate in Productive Ward and Safewards model.

About St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is part of St Vincent's Health Australia and is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services including acute medical and surgical services, sub-acute care, medical diagnostics, rehabilitation, allied health, mental health, palliative care, correctional health and community residential care. SVHM is driven by our values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.

Application
Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application. Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.

SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You are therefore required to comply with the SVHA Staff Health Screening Immunisation Policy, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).