Registered Psychiatric Nurse
Core
Provide comprehensive mental health assessment, crisis intervention, triage, treatment, and support to consumers experiencing acute mental health difficulties in emergency and community settings.
Role type
Senior IC mental health clinician (nursing)
Builds
Recovery-oriented care across emergency, community, and telephone-based mental health services
Domain
Mental health / Clinical care
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Mental health assessment, crisis intervention, risk assessment, evidence-based treatment, safety planning, psychoeducation, care coordination, clinical documentation
Preferred skills
Multidisciplinary collaboration, independent practice, recovery-oriented practice principles
Technologies
Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
Responsibilities
Conduct timely mental health assessments, triage, risk assessments, and crisis interventions; Provide evidence-based treatment, recovery-oriented interventions, safety planning, and brief therapeutic support; Deliver telephone mental health triage services; Collaborate with consumers, carers, GPs, and multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care; Monitor and support mental and physical health needs; Maintain accurate clinical documentation and participate in clinical supervision.