• Opportunity to work as part of a purpose-driven organisation
• Part time 3-5 days/week, fixed term contract to 20 June 2022
• Central and Eastern Sydney location
• Generous salary packaging to increase your take home pay

About One Door

One Door Mental Health is a leading for purpose service provider for those living with mental illness, their families and carers. Our community creates a safe place that connects people, our services are innovative and supported by more than 30 years of experience, and our advocacy work is putting an end to stigma through education and understanding. Creating a world in which people with a mental illness are valued and treated as equals is at the heart of everything we do.

The Program

One Door Mental Health developed Health Care to provide affordable allied health services to people with mental illness, and their families, who are unable to find these services due to financial constraints, or clinician unavailability. Health Care operates from four sites in Sydney, each clinic being co-located with other One Door recovery services. We have psychologists, mental health social workers, exercise physiologists and dieticians providing Better Access, Primary Health Network funded psychological services and NDIS services to clients.
One Door has been commissioned by Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network to deliver the Primary Integrated Care Supports Program (PICS) to support GPs and psychiatrists to support people living with severe and persistent mental illness to stay well living in the community. One Door is seeking mental health nurses to join our team and help expand the service.

About the Role

PICS nurses will work in a team with peer workers and be supported by the PICS manager, peer worker coordinator, One Door Clinical Director and other PICS nurses. We are looking for experienced mental health nurses, who are preferably credentialed, or willing to complete credentialing. This is an opportunity to take the next step in your career and work in the community in a nurse-led practice.

For more detailed information on the position, the position description can be viewed here.

To succeed in this role you will need the following:

• Be an AHPRA registered nurse
• Be credentialed with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, or eligible to be credentialed
• Extensive experience working as a mental health nurse, with people with severe and complex mental illness
• Experience working in a team with peer workers in a recovery-oriented framework
• Knowledge of community based mental health services, understanding of the community sector and experience working in an NGO will be desirable
• Completed or willingness to complete cultural competency training
• Completed or willingness to complete trauma informed care in practice training

Your values and our values

Our values are integral to everything that we are as an organisation and how we interact with each other, our consumers and carers. As you consider whether this role is for you, please take some time to reflect on your own values and One Door's values. Click here to view our values ASPIRE to work out if they resonate with you.

Apply Now!

Don't miss this opportunity to join a recognised and respected organisation that is purpose and values driven!

For more information regarding this role please contact Gabrielle Kay, PICS Program Manager on 0437 978 279

One Door Mental Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We strongly encourages applications from people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and mature aged applicants.