Salary: SRN Level 3 $137,294 p.a.
Location: Great Southern
Unit/Division: WACHS - Great Southern > GS Mental Health Service
Work Type: Permanent - Full Time
Closing Date: 2026-06-22 4:00 PM (YYYY-MM-DD)

Position Profile:

Great Southern Mental Health Service (GSMHS) is a specialist service that provides acute inpatient and community care to mental health clients in the Great Southern. The GSMHS has multi-disciplinary teams who provide high quality mental health care. The teams located in Albany and Katanning provide outreach services to surrounding areas. The region is split into the Lower GreatSouthern (LGS) and Central Great Southern (CGS).

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Extensive and current experience as a Community Mental Health Nurse, with highly developed expertise in crisis intervention, comprehensive assessment, treatment planning, and case management for children and adolescents with complex mental health disorders.
• Advanced knowledge of the Mental Health Act 2014, with demonstrated ability to initiate and manage interventions in accordance with legislative requirements and National Mental Health Standards.
• Strong negotiation, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills, applied effectively within a community-based setting.
• Proven clinical leadership capability, including experience in providing clinical supervision, mentoring staff, and supporting performance development.
• Demonstrated ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Well-developed computer literacy, including accurate management of clinical records, use of electronic medical systems, navigating online policies, and engaging in digital communication and training platforms.

About Us

The WA Country Health Service's core business is the provision of quality, accessible health services to people from large regional centres to those in small remote communities.

Our vision is to be global leader in rural and remote healthcare.

Our values of Community, Compassion, Quality, Integrity, Equity and Curiosity shape who we are, how we behave, how we interact with each other, how we make decisions and how we provide care to our patients.