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Nurse Practitioner Candidate

Grade: RPN5

Location: Ravenhall Correction Centre (required at other sites)

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 areamental health service.  Melbourne Assessment Prison is a 16-bed acute assessment unit, specialist clinics, 
outpatient services and a reception assessment program. 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:

In Victoria, a Nurse Practitioner (NP) is defined as “a registered nurse educated for advanced practice who is an essential member of an interdependent health care team and whose role is determined by the context in which (they) practice.” The position is responsible to the Clinical Director (or delegate) for the standard of extensions to practice. The NP practices with autonomy within an interdisciplinary framework to maximise access to expert forensic mental health nursing care to promote recovery and optimum outcomes for prisoners experiencing mental illness.

The main components of the role are:

• Expert assessment – holistic mental health and risk assessments.
• Advocacy and access – ensuring timely access to appropriate mental health care and treatment
• Managing risk – applying risk management principles within a custodial setting.
• Complex mental health care and treatment – specialised interventions with highly complex and behaviourally challenging prisoners.
• Transition planning – facilitating successful transition from the prison to the community for prisoners with a mental illness.

Key selection criteria:

• Registration with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Division 1 nurse with endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Extensive and advanced clinical knowledge and at least five years of experience in mental health nursing.
• Demonstrated ability to undertake comprehensive mental health and risk assessments and to plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of nursing in a prison environment.

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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.