Enrolled Nurse Mental Health Intensive Care Unit
An exciting opportunity exists for an Enrolled Nurse to join a dynamic team at The Mental Health Mental Intensive Care Unit.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Enrolled Nurse
Remuneration: $1,209.90 - $1,314.70 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ487450
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
Where you'll be working
The Hornsby Mental Health Intensive Care Unit (MHICU) is a 12 bed specialist resource available within the NSLD MHDA which is reserved to provide Psychiatric Intensive Care to consumer identified as presenting with high degree of acute clinical risk, diagnostic and management complexity or acute symptomology of a mental illness/disorder.
What you'll be doing
MHDA Declaration
Each person’s unique journey of recovery will be supported by mental health drug and alcohol services in a way that fosters hope, purpose and resilience.
MHDA Statement of Intention
The intention of the NSLHD MHDA is to provide recovery-oriented, trauma informed services that are guided by evidence based practices and collaboration.
The Enrolled Nurse in MHICU will provide high quality nursing care, specialising in the assessment, planning and implementation of strategies to manage consumers with mental illnesses who exhibit high risk behaviours and/or complex needs and in collaboration with individual/s and the greater health care team to achieve quality consumer care outcomes. This will involve liaison with other mental health services with regards to the referral, admission and return transfer of these consumers.
The Enrolled Nurse within Mental Health Drug and Alcohol [MHDA] Services works alongside Registered Nurses and Allied Health to support quality patient health outcomes with a focus of recovery across a range of health care settings.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
- Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrate these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
- Current Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Annual Registration – Enrolled Nurse Division 2.
- Nursing experience, knowledge and skills relevant to acute inpatient mental health settings.
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For role related queries or questions contact Gemma Ranson on Gemma.Ranson@health.nsw.gov.au or 02 9845 6722.
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases including COVID-19. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
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Applications Close: 20 May 2024
