• 12 month, full-time with flexible ADO
• Based on St Kilda Road
• Registered Nurse grade 3
• Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
• Frequent professional development opportunities

Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.

What's in it for you?

• An opportunity to build on mental health skills and competencies while sharing your own physical health nursing expertise

About us

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of Alfred Mental & Addiction Health is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

Southcity Clinic

Southcity Clinic is a service of Alfred Mental & Addiction Health. Southcity Clinic provides a range of addiction interventions including harm reduction, counselling and evidence based medical interventions for addiction. The Southcity Clinic multi-disciplinary team is comprised of Addiction Medicine Specialists and Addiction Psychiatrists, Psychiatry Registrars, a Dual Diagnosis Nurse Practitioner and allied health practitioners including nurses, social workers and AOD clinicians.

What you'll be doing

The Southcity Clinic Transitions Nurse will be providing a range of health interventions while building on skills and competencies relevant to mental health and addiction nursing. You'll work alongside the Southcity Clinic multi-disciplinary team and receive supervision from our Dual Diagnosis Nurse Practitioner while working towards a range of mental health nursing competencies.

About you

You will have:

• Unrestricted Nursing registration with AHPRA
• Prior experience in AOD/addictions nursing
• Certificate IV AOD or equivalent AOD qualification would be highly regarded
• Australian working rights (Visa holders, please upload your visa and passport with your application)
• Full Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination (certificates to be uploaded with your application)
• Current Victorian Driver's License
• Current Working with Children Check and be willing to undergo a Background Check

Other benefits

• Portable long service leave from other public health services
• Great employment benefits as part of Alfred Health - Wellbeing initiatives, access to salary packaging, novated leasing and discounted health insurance and banking
• Great work life balance & located close to public transport, shops and restaurants

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the Apply Now button, include your resume and cover letter.

For more information regarding the position, please contact Gabby Cohen on: 9525 7399

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine and must provide evidence of their vaccination status. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health's Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au

A position description is attached.