Job description
- Job Type: Permanent – Full Time
- Location: Wakefield St, Adelaide
About Nunkuwarrin Yunti:
Nunkuwarrin Yunti, the foremost Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation in Adelaide aims to promote and deliver improvement in the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families in the greater metropolitan areas of Adelaide and regional areas to advance their social, cultural and economic status. The Organisation places a strong focus on a client centered approach to the delivery of services and a collaborative working culture to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients.
Nunkuwarrin Yunti is a Child Safe Organisation.
About the Program:
Primary Care Services provides comprehensive primary health care to the Aboriginal community. The multi-disciplinary team consists of Aboriginal Health Workers and Practitioners, a Clinical Services Officer, Nurses and General Practitioners and General Practice Registrars. Services are augmented by the Oral Health (Dental) Program and a range of visiting medical specialists and allied health professionals.
The PCS team liaises and works closely with Strong Mums Solid Kids, the Social and Emotional Wellbeing program and the Community Health Promotion and Education program to ensure a high standard of integrated and coordinated client care.
About the Role:
The Mental Health Nurse will utilise comprehensive triage assessments following the Nursing and Mental Health stepped care response model, service mapping and evidence-based mental health plans to implement a flexible system with effective interventions in the way services and programs are delivered across the lifespan and across the trajectory of mental health disorders.
The primary role of the Mental Health Nurse includes:
- Provide program coordination of mental health service delivery within PCS.
- Triage assessment of current and new referrals using the Nursing and Mental Health stepped care response assessment tool.
- Provide evidence-based client care and services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are living with severe mental disorders and support their families and carers.
- Work collaboratively to engage, improve and maintain links with GPs and psychiatrists, and other service providers, including allied health professionals, and liaise with external agencies to deliver best practice psycho-social services.
- Use available information systems and best practice evidence to inform program planning and clinical decision-making, and to evaluate outcomes.
- Operate within a professional practice framework appropriate to the position and role.
- Provide direct client care, management and assessment of clients presenting within PCS with diagnosed Mental Health conditions.
Selection Criteria:
Essential
- Registered as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia via Australian Health Practitioner Registration Authority (AHPRA), with at least three (3) years post registration experience
- Qualifications and experience in mental health nursing is essential
- Extensive experience working in an Aboriginal primary health care setting and an understanding of how a range of issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may impact their health
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with Aboriginal people living with severe mental health disorders and comorbidities including drug and alcohol misuse
- Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to operate autonomously with limited direct supervision
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy workplace environment, to assess priorities and meet deadlines, and respond appropriate to difficult and/or stressful situations in a calm, sensitive and professional manner
- Demonstrated ability to deliver a high level of professional judgment and clinical competence in evidence based mental health service delivery and care coordination, and a sound understanding of clinical governance
- Demonstrated competence setting client-centred goals and strategies using the best available evidence
Desirable
- Experience working, setting up and coordinating in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service
- An understanding of the social determinants of health and the ability to practice within this framework
- Capacity to provide innovative solutions to complex problems, and ability to engage, negotiate and resolve conflict
Please note, a current National Police Check, Working with Children Check and registration with AHPRA is mandatory for this role.