• Permanent Full time and Permanent Part time
• Located atWellington House - Detox Unit in Box Hill

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a comprehensive range of high quality acute, sub-acute, palliative care, mental health, drug and alcohol, residential care and community health services to people and communities that are diverse in culture, age, socio-economic status, population and healthcare needs.

The role of the Registered Nurse (RN) of the Turning Point Addiction Medicine Units (TPAMU) co-located at Wellington Rd Box Hill and Ward 1 East Box Hill Hospital is to support the Nurse Unit Managers (NUM) and Associate Nurse Unit Managers (ANUM) in providing effective coordination and efficient management of TPAMU in line with the Turning Point Alcohol and Drug clinical treatment service. The RN, together with the ANUM, form part of the Unit team responsible for client centred and high quality clinical care that is guided by a recovery model approach.

To be successful in this role you should possess:

• Qualification and registration as a registered nurse under the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• Experience and demonstrated skills in alcohol and other drug assessments, withdrawal management, development of shared care plans, referral pathways, delivery of counselling.
• Demonstrated competence in a clinical position.
• Experience working in the alcohol, drug, dual diagnosis and/or mental health fields.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in the clinical management of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use disorders, including withdrawal management.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in providing widely used alcohol and drug interventions such as relapse prevention strategies, motivational interviewing technique and brief intervention.
• Demonstrated knowledge of management of challenging client behaviours including defusing, debriefing and crisis intervention.
• Knowledge of the drug treatment sector including non-government and public services, primary care, rehabilitation and therapeutic community services, mental health services and the private sector.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and networking skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Proficient computer literacy.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities.

The benefits of working for Eastern Health include:

• Diverse and engaging career opportunities
• Friendly & supportive team
• Flexible working hours
• Salary packaging options
• Career progression in our teaching hospitals

Eastern Health Values:

• Patients First
• Agility
• Humility
• Respect
• Kindness
• Excellence

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory police records check.

You must have the right to permanently live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

Please submit all applications online.

Recruitment agency applications will not be accepted.

A full Position Description is attached below.