NALHN’S Mental Health Nursing Team
We have an ongoing commitment to delivering quality nursing care.
The Division of Mental Health nursing team provides mental health care and assessment for adults and older people in hospitals, community mental health centres and to consumers in their own homes.
NALHN is one of the few Local Health Networks across Australia where our nurses all have, or are working towards, a postgraduate mental health nursing qualification that underpins an ongoing commitment to delivering quality nursing care.
Testimonial
David - Registered Nurse Mental Health (Community Mental Health)
Every morning our multi-disciplinary team check in with each other to discuss any needs we may have, and to share expertise. You know you always have direct access to a team skilled in psychiatry, allied health and other disciplines. You always feel supported in your work.
Our mental health nurses can work within a vast variety of settings including forensic mental health, acute inpatient wards, emergency departments, our mental health short stay unit, perinatal mental health, our specialist neurobehavioural unit, prison inreach, SA Ambulance Service and SA Police Co-responder teams, community mental health teams and our mental health hospital in the home service.
Our nurses can also provide mental health consultation and liaison services providing assessment, education and advice to general nurses in providing care to our mental health patients on medical/surgical wards.
Mental health nurses play a critical role in supporting clients with a strong focus on recovery and quality of life through the development of strategies to ensure quality care that continues to improve the mental health outcomes for our north and north-eastern Adelaide communities.
Our nurses are supported to embrace a lifelong learning culture that recognises the need for reflective practice and ongoing improvement.
Mental health nurses at NALHN recognise that good care requires a holistic approach that looks at mental, physical and social health factors.
At NALHN we believe that everyone has a story, everyone matters, everyone contributes, and everyone grows. We have a great story to tell, so please check out our testimonials video about what it’s like working at NALHN.
If you share our passion and want to join our team here at NALHN, take a look at our current vacancies now.