Job Description
Mental Health Nurses with experience working within a community setting and providing evidence based mental health interventions, linking clients to primary health and psychosocial supports to meet the individual needs of those who experiences severe mental illness.
Benefits:
- Attend monthly supervision with an external facilitator and work within a supportive and inclusive team
- Join a family of supportive, caring and dedicated employees
Our client has created a fulfilling and passionate workplace, known as industry leaders in providing specialist mental health for people living with severe and enduring mental illnesses. You'd be joining an organisation where all are working towards achieving inclusiveness and advocacy support for people living with mental illness and their families, and transforming innovating services to support them.
About the Role:
Providing evidence based mental health interventions, linking clients to primary health and psychosocial supports to meet the individual needs of those who experience severe mental illness. This position is community based and delivered by a team of experienced and credentialed mental health nurses and peer workers.
Key duties:
- Accept referrals assigned by Intake and undertake due diligence on each referral.
- Ensure effective delivery of quality, timely and culturally appropriate care to a diverse range of people who experience severe and enduring mental illness
- Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with proactive recovery oriented and trauma informed individual care, treatment and follow- up · Use professional risk assessment and best practice when engaging with clients and engage appropriate risk management follow-up
- Include families, kinship groups and carers where appropriate and with consent, and provide support, education and/or referral to appropriate carer supports
- Coordination of comprehensive holistic physical and mental health assessments, monitoring of mental and physical health and support to access any required treatments
- Collaboratively engage with a range of support services including psychosocial as per each individual's assessed and expressed needs and refer as required
- Work collaboratively and in partnership with LHDs, Peer Workers, GPs, Psychiatrists, Allied Health professionals, community agencies and other relevant stakeholders
- Maintain clinical records in Salesforce and service contact data and outcome measures
Skills & Experience:
- Credentialed with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (or evidence of working towards being credentialed within 12 months).
- Minimum 5 years' experience as a mental health nurse within a community setting
- Willing to complete Cultural Competency training & Trauma Informed Care in Practice training, if not done in last two years
- Experience working with GPs and community-based psychiatrists
- Ability to work in a team environment yet in a very autonomous role and self-manage a practice
- Ability to work with and support peer workers
- Ability to use internet based CiMS program effectively
- Valid National Police Record Check, Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Clearance, & appropriate COVID-19 Vaccinations
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Experience working with clients across diverse cultural backgrounds
How to apply:
Email your resume to Brianna Biggins at Brianna.biggins@twrecruitment.com.au
For any queries regarding the position or application process, contact Brianna Biggins on 02 9000 4093.
TRADEWIND AUSTRALIA AND THE ORGANISATIONS WE REPRESENT ARE PROUD TO BE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERS.
We welcome applications from people who reflect the diversity of the organisations we partner with, and the people they support. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability and lived experience to apply.
