Nurse Practitioner
- Work as part of our Orygen @ Home Acute Youth Mental Health team
- Full Time Nurse Practitioner position, Rotating Roster
- Leadership role within a new and innovative youth mental health service
Your new team
Orygen @ Home is an addition to the acute services provided at Orygen. The program will partner with young people families and carers to provide inpatient like care within the home environment. Access to care is provided 24 hrs a day 7 days per week by a multidisciplinary team of professionals completing shift work rosters ensuring comprehensive, collaborative and coordinated care.
The program will play a key role in the support and transition of young people and families between Orygen acute services (IPU and YAT), the continuing care teams and other services within Orygen and North Western Mental Health. Care will be in partnership with ongoing care providers and enable opportunities for targeted acute care interventions that can be completed within the home environment.
About your new role
- Provide junior staff, graduates and students with appropriate leadership, supervision, training and instruction
- Work with the Orygen @ Home Leadership team in ongoing service development, data recording, evaluation, co design and other ongoing service improvement.
- Advanced assessment, clinical reasoning, problem solving and prioritisation skills
- Provide high quality standards of patient care.
- Perform nursing interventions and procedures in accordance with Melbourne Health policy and procedures
About You:
- Comprehensive experience in clinical practice within the mental health field, including young people experiencing mental health disorders
- Experience and expertise in providing acute mental health care management
- Ability to develop, implement and evaluate client-centred individual service plans, risk assessments and diagnostic formulations
- High level of motivation, reliability and professional conduct
- Ability to develop, implement and evaluate client-centred individual service plans, risk assessments and diagnostic formulations
- Capacity to provide, or develop skills in, integrated assessment, treatment and care for dual diagnosis clients
- Knowledge of the rationale and evidence for early intervention in mental illness
Benefit of working with Orygen:
- Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team
- Salary packaging, onsite car parking and, close to public transport.
The RMH stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.
Interested?
For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.