Registered Mental Health Nurse
Core
Senior mental health clinician providing clinical leadership, care coordination, and integrated support for individuals with moderate to complex mental health needs in regional Western Australia.
Role type
Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse (Clinical Lead)
Builds
Integrated primary mental health care services including wellbeing counselling, mental health therapy, and clinical care coordination.
Domain
Mental health nursing, primary care, regional health services
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Comprehensive clinical and biopsychosocial assessment, suicide risk assessment and safety planning, recovery-oriented care planning, care coordination across multidisciplinary teams, medication management and monitoring, clinical leadership and mentoring, trauma-informed practice, health literacy promotion
Preferred skills
Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health Nursing, experience with co-occurring mental health and AOD concerns, knowledge of local community support services, quality improvement and clinical governance experience
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Undertake comprehensive clinical and risk assessments; Develop and review recovery-oriented care plans; Coordinate care across multiple providers; Provide evidence-based nursing interventions and therapeutic support; Conduct suicide risk assessments and safety planning; Support medication management; Identify and respond to physical health needs; Facilitate access to psychosocial and community services; Provide clinical leadership and mentoring; Contribute to clinical governance and quality improvement
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities