Mental Health Nurse
Visa sponsorship
Healthcare · Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Full-Time · $90,000 - $120,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
A considered career step for an experienced nurse: a private mental health hospital in Melbourne is appointing nurses to permanent, full-time posts on its inpatient unit. The unit cares for patients who are acutely unwell with complex needs, and each nurse is a trusted member of a team that draws on many professions.
Setting out your AHPRA registration and ward experience carefully will matter in a move like this, and presenting your mental health career with Build AI CV is a good way to start.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess each patient's mental health fully
- Offer nursing care that is personal to every patient
- Work with patients who have schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder or other conditions
- Assess risk
- Undertake mental state examinations
- Keep patients under close monitoring
- Give medications and track how patients respond to treatment
- Intervene to support patients in a crisis
- Support recovery planning
- Use therapeutic engagement
- Operate within a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, allied health staff and nurses
- Make sure clinical documentation is accurate
- Help plan discharge
Requirements & Eligibility
- Qualification as a Registered Nurse and experience in inpatient mental health or psychiatric nursing
- Hold AHPRA registration, or be eligible to obtain Australian nursing registration
- Strong skills in assessing patients clinically and managing risk
- Communication skills that are strong
- Acute mental health, adult psychiatry or specialist inpatient services experience
- Committed to recovery-focused, person-centred and trauma-informed care
- Applying with the aim of employer sponsorship through the Subclass 482 visa
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