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Mental Health Nurse
Healthcare Medical
💰 Salary Not shared
📊 Market A$6,000–A$8,500/mo (A$72,000–A$102,000/yr)
About the Company
Symbolic Recruitment Pty Ltd specializes in connecting skilled professionals with opportunities that support long-term growth and success. The organization is dedicated to empowering individuals to reach their career potential while helping businesses secure talent that truly fits their needs. Guided by values of professionalism, excellence, and trust, Symbolic focuses on building meaningful, value-driven relationships with clients and candidates. The team aims to move beyond transactional recruitment, creating partnerships where both parties feel seen, supported, and set up to thrive. Symbolic Recruitment offers a collaborative environment for professionals who want to contribute to a more thoughtful and people-centered recruitment experience. The RPN2 provides specialist mental health nursing care within a secure forensic environment. The role combines therapeutic engagement, recovery-focused practice, risk management, care coordination and participation in multidisciplinary treatment programs. RPN2s may also rotate through the Early Intervention Support Team (EIST), supporting clinical teams with de-escalation, behavioural management and therapeutic engagement across the hospital.
Requirements
- ● Candidates must possess:
- ● Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA
- ● Minimum of Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing (or recognised equivalent)
- ● Eligibility to work in Australia
- ● Ability to satisfy police and security screening requirements
- ● Typically 2+ years post-registration psychiatric nursing experience
- ● Adult inpatient mental health
- ● Acute psychiatric units
- ● Secure mental health environments
- ● Forensic mental health settings
- ● Psychiatric intensive care units (PICU)
- ● Correctional or prison health services
- ● High dependency mental health environments
- ● Demonstrated ability to:
- ● Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments
- ● Develop and implement recovery-focused care plans
- ● Manage challenging behaviours
- ● Undertake risk assessment and risk management planning
- ● Participate in multidisciplinary treatment planning
- ● Administer and monitor psychotropic medications
- ● Deliver group-based therapeutic interventions
- ● Engage consumers experiencing severe and persistent mental illness
- ● We are seeking nurses who demonstrate:
- ● Strong therapeutic engagement skills
- ● Confidence working with complex presentations
- ● Emotional resilience
- ● Sound clinical judgement
- ● Recovery-oriented practice
- ● Ability to work safely within secure environments
- ● Excellent teamwork and communication skills
- ● Commitment to consumer-centred care
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