Posted 9d ago
Mental Health Nurse
KEY POINTS WE FOUND
- Provide accessible, person-centred mental health support to individuals experiencing distress or mental health concerns.
- Conduct mental health assessments, risk assessments, and develop individual care and recovery plans.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure continuity of care.
- REF: REF393
- Date listed: 14 Sep 2026
- Location: Alice Springs & Central Australia NT
- Category: Mental Health & AOD
- Type: Permanent
SCHADS 5 + 30% incentive
Mental Health Nurse – Neami National | Alice Springs
- Location: Alice Springs, NT
- Working within a Medicare Mental Health Centre
- Provide accessible, person-centred mental health support to people experiencing distress or mental health concerns.
- Complete mental health assessments, risk assessments and safety planning.
- Provide clinical interventions, brief interventions and crisis support.
- Monitor consumers’ mental health presentation and identify changes in clinical risk or support needs.
- Provide mental health education and support around medication, wellbeing and recovery within nursing scope of practice.
- Develop and review individual care and recovery plans.
- Support people with complex and co-occurring mental health needs, including AOD where relevant.
- Coordinate referrals and connect consumers with appropriate health, mental health and community services.
- Liaise with GPs, hospitals, psychiatrists and other service providers to support continuity of care.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside the Clinical Lead, Clinicians, Peer Workers and other Mental Health Nurses.
- Provide trauma-informed, recovery-oriented and culturally safe care, including working effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- Maintain clinical documentation, case notes and reporting requirements.
- Participate in clinical supervision, case reviews and team meetings.
- AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse required.
- Mental health/community mental health experience highly desirable.
- Strong assessment, crisis response, de-escalation and stakeholder engagement skills.
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Skills
0 of 12 matchedClinical documentationCrisis responseCultural safetyDe-escalationMedication supportMental health assessmentRecovery planningRisk assessmentSafety planningStakeholder engagementTeamworkTrauma-informed care
Licenses & certifications
0 of 1 matchedAhpra registration as a registered nurse