$36.10 - $48.99 per hour, plus salary packaging
Part time or full-time application welcome
Up to $15,000 incentive payments may be available to support relocation
About the role
We are seeking a Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN2) to join our Steele Haughton Acute Residential Unit, providing specialist mental health care for older adults 65+. As an RPN2, you’ll deliver evidence-based, recovery-focused care, working closely with consumers, their carers and families as they transition back to their communities. This role involves performing biopsychosocial assessments, developing treatment plans, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to support each consumer’s mental health and wellbeing.
You’ll work under the guidance of senior nursing staff, with access to expert advice when needed, and contribute to our 24/7, bed-based clinical services, ensuring high-quality care in a supportive environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide evidence-based clinical treatments, enhancing recovery from serious mental health conditions.
* Conduct biopsychosocial assessments and formulate effective treatment plans.
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to achieve consumer goals.
* Evaluate and document the effectiveness of consumer treatment plans.
* Offer recovery-focused mental health and pharmacological education to consumers and their families.
Skills & Experience
* Registered Nurse with AHPRA.
* Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health.
* Experience in mental health nursing and working with consumers with mental health conditions.
* Strong engagement skills with consumers and carers, aligned with mental health recovery principles.
* Knowledge of evidence-based treatments, with the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
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Up to $15,000 incentive payments may be available to support relocation
(paid as a reimbursement for Bond and rent, travel costs, removalists, accommodation, visa application fees and more).
The Victorian Government has allocated funds to support rural and regional Area Mental Health Services (AMHS) to provide incentives to attract workers to roles that are difficult to fill.
The new workforce relocation and incentive grants program is being administered by Rural Agency Workforce Victoria (RWAV).
More information for eligibility requirement click here Area Mental Health Services · RWAV
Interested?
Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Jane Lockhart, Nurse Unit Manager on 5320 3539 for a confidential discussion.
We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.
This position is paid in accordance with the Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement. The classification is Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 2 (NP21 – NP70) which ranges from $36.10 - $48.99 per hour
About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.
Culture & Benefits
* Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
* Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
* Access to Staff Fitness program
* Staff rewards and recognition programs
Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat
Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.