Lead Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Community Care
Department of Health
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Job summary
The Department of Health Tasmania is seeking a Lead Nurse Practitioner in Adult Mental Health Services to oversee three small acute community-based services. You will provide triage, assessment and brief interventions for adults with acute mental health concerns and work with emergency services and GPs to develop recovery-focused plans.
You’ll lead clinical practice, support professional development, and contribute to service improvements within a supportive multidisciplinary team.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse with NP endorsement and current registration.
- Master NP in mental health.
- Postgraduate mental health/psychiatric nursing qualification.
Responsibilities
- Integrate contemporary information with experience to support decision making and analysis.
- Apply clinical knowledge to improve consumer care.
- Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments.
- Initiate and interpret diagnostic pathology/radiology results.
- Initiate short/medium-term psychotherapies and medications.
- Clinically manage consumers individually or by delegation.
- Develop treatment, safety, and management plans with consumers and GPs.
- Contribute clinical expertise to learning environments and post-registration teaching.
- Oversee operational management of services.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Department of Health Tasmania is seeking a Lead Nurse Practitioner in Adult Mental Health Services to oversee three small acute community-based services. You will provide triage, assessment and brief interventions for adults with acute mental health concerns and work with emergency services and GPs to develop recovery-focused plans.
You’ll lead clinical practice, support professional development, and contribute to service improvements within a supportive multidisciplinary team.
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