Mental Health Nurse
Visa sponsorship
Healthcare · Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Full-Time · $90,000 - $120,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
If Australia is on your radar and you work in mental health nursing, this opening is worth reading closely. A private mental health hospital in Melbourne needs Registered Nurses for permanent full-time roles on its inpatient unit, looking after acutely unwell people with complex needs as part of a team from several health professions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Deliver complete mental health assessments
- Provide individualised nursing care and look after patients affected by anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or other conditions
- Conduct risk assessments and examine patients' mental state
- Carry out ongoing patient monitoring and give patients their medications
- Follow treatment responses and offer crisis intervention support
- Contribute to recovery planning and foster therapeutic engagement
- Partner with psychiatrists, psychologists and allied health staff, as well as other nurses and document care accurately
- Play a part in discharge planning
Requirements & Eligibility
- Experience in inpatient mental health or psychiatric nursing, as a qualified Registered Nurse; registration with AHPRA, or eligibility to obtain Australian nursing registration
- Solid clinical assessment ability, risk management and communication
- Worked in acute mental health, adult psychiatry or specialist inpatient services
- Commitment to person-centred, trauma-informed and recovery-focused care
- Applying with the aim of employer sponsorship through the Subclass 482 visa
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Visa guide: Australia 482 Visa Guide for Malaysians