NURSE/MIDWIFE CONSULTANT PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH

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Job no: 947059

Work type: Full time

Located in: Adelaide Metro Northern

Categories: Mental Health, Nursing-Midwifery

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - ELIZABETH VALE SA 5112

Salary $130,190 - $136,010 p.a. - RN3

Ongoing Full-Time

About the Role:

Perinatal mental health sits at a genuinely complex intersection of clinical practice, family systems, and community care. At the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), we're looking for an experienced Nurse or Midwife Consultant to lead and strengthen perinatal mental health service delivery across Adelaide's northern metropolitan communities - a population with real need and a team committed to meeting it.

What You'll Be Leading

Providing advanced clinical consultation, assessment, and care coordination for women and birthing people experiencing perinatal mental health challenges across NALHN Mental Health Services, Salisbury Adult Service

Driving service development and quality improvement initiatives that embed best-practice perinatal mental health care into clinical pathways

Building and sustaining collaborative relationships with obstetric, midwifery, infant and child health, and community services to ensure continuity of care

Mentoring and supporting the wider multidisciplinary team through education, clinical supervision, and consultancy

What You Bring

Current registration as a Registered Nurse and-or Midwife with AHPRA, with a Master's qualification or equivalent advanced practice experience in mental health or perinatal care

Demonstrated specialist knowledge of perinatal mental health, including assessment and evidence-based intervention across the perinatal period

Proven ability to work consultatively across multidisciplinary and multi-agency environments

Experience in service development, clinical leadership, or quality improvement within a public health setting

A current, unencumbered driver's licence and willingness to work across NALHN sites as required

Understanding of SA Health policy frameworks and the specific health needs of northern Adelaide communities

To be eligible for this position, you must be Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate, enrolled in an approved Mental Health course or holds a qualification in mental health practice.

About You:

You will be joining a dynamic and expanding Local Health Network that is committed to delivering contemporary, innovative and high-quality health services within modern facilities.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Adelaide:

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

With over 7,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide's north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital - the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital - a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services - adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services - provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services - including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you'll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and-or neurodivergence.

We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if you have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Check(s):

DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)

National Police Check (National Police Certificate) for vulnerable person-related employment screening - apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.

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