Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2 (P26407)
Salary: $110,733 - $117,053 (Plus 12% Super)
Location: Canberra Health Services
Section: Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol & Drugs Services
Closing Date: 28th August 2025

What can we offer you:

• City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

Join the passionate team at Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS), where you'll help deliver life-changing care across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings-including people's homes. Based in Community Recovery Services, you'll work with a multidisciplinary team to support adults experiencing complex mental health challenges. With strong clinical governance, psychiatrist collaboration, and a recovery-focused model, you'll provide face-to-face care that empowers clients to thrive. This role offers opportunities to lead, mentor, and contribute to quality initiatives, including Clozapine Clinic delivery, while partnering with families and service providers to achieve the best outcomes.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.

To Apply:

Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

***Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position***

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory's history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.

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