Job Description

Nurse Practitioner Candidate
Grade: RPN5
Location: Will be required to work across various prison sites where Forensicare
provides services.
Full time
$126,885 + Super + Salary packaging + Benefits
Forensicare:
Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) is Victoria’s specialist provider of forensic mental health services. We deliver recovery-focused programs that support consumers living with serious mental illness or problematic behaviours who are connected to, or at risk of contact with, the justice system, across a variety of settings including community-based services, inpatient units, and secure environments throughout Victoria.
Prison services:
We provide mental health services in prisons across Victoria. We strive to provide the same standard of services and care to people in prisons that anyone else experiencing mental illness can access at an area mental health service. Our work in prisons includes:
• triage
• on-site assessments
• ongoing clinical care and support
• harm prevention and crisis interventions
• outpatient clinics and episodic care
• inpatient teams
• rehabilitation and transition to community programs.
Position objective:
The Nurse Practitioner Candidate (NPC) undertakes a program of education and advanced nursing practice development leading to endorsement by AHPRA as a Nurse Practitioner. The NPC practices with increasing autonomy within an interdisciplinary framework to maximise access to expert mental health nursing care to promote recovery and optimum outcomes for people in custody experiencing mental illness. The NPC undertakes an agreed learning and development plan to achieve the requirements to be endorsed as a NP (Nurse Practitioner) including supervised practice clinical internship, professional development, and supervision.
The main components of the role are:
• Complete advanced biopsychosocial and risk assessments, diagnoses, and treatment within the NPC scope of practice
• Ensure people in custody with a mental illness receive timely and appropriate mental health services during their incarceration and access to community-based services upon release from prison
• Deliver specialised interventions to people in custody with complex needs using high level decision making, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning
• Actively lead nursing practice across the organisation, including nursing related initiatives, and old relevant portfolios
Key selection criteria:
• Holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing (or equivalent) with current AHPRA registration
• Extensive and advanced clinical knowledge and at least five years of experience in mental health nursing experience (5+ years)
• Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery
• Strong knowledge of Australian College of Mental Health Nursing standards, Forensic Mental Health Nursing Standards, current forensic mental health nursing practices, and relevant legislation
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• A culture where people matter.
• Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.
• Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.
• Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses
• A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
• Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
• Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
• A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.
Eligibility
• Influenza and Immunisation Evidence
• This position is subject to a Police Check
Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Forensicare promotes our guiding principles of RESPONSIVENESS, INTEGRITY, IMPARTIALITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT, LEADERSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.