Employment Type: Permanent full time
Location: Werribee Mercy Hospital | Clare Moore Building, Mercy Mental Health and Wellbeing Services (MMH&WS)
Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter, and all relevant qualifications

Contact: Andrea Kavanagh - akavanagh@mercy.com.au

Where there’s life, there’s Mercy.

Where there’s care, there’s You.

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability we offer. But it also means so much opportunity - to build on all that’s gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

Role responsibilities:

• Ensure teams provide high quality responsive accessible clinical services in line with legislation and in the spirit of the Mercy Mission and Values.

• To develop and maintain high quality, effective, efficient care and deliver services within a pre-determined budget.

• To engage and liaise with key stakeholders to promote collaboration and partnership in meeting the mental health needs of the community.

• To keep up to date with trends and developments in Mental Health and foster the development of best practice.

• Support MMH&WS leadership team in the management and leadership of the overall MMH&WS program through participation in governance, strategic planning, projects & other activities.

• Support the Reducing Restrictive Interventions (RRI) taskforce.

• Managerial supervision to ANUMS.

About you:

• High level of clinical experience

• Excellent communication skills and effective interpersonal skills.

• An ability to work autonomously & prioritise workload.

Mandatory qualifications are:

• Registration with AHPRA as a Registered Nurse with successful completion of a specialist undergraduate psychiatric nursing program or a Post graduate Psychiatric/mental health nursing qualification or equivalence.

• At least five years mental health nursing experience

• Previous NUM or ANUM experience

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.

• Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.