Mental Health Nurse - RPN3 - Older Adult Community Service
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- Permanent, full-time position with monthly ADO
- Mental Health Nurse Grade 3 - multiple positions available
- Rewarding opportunity to join a new Older Adult Community Mental Health Team
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Mental Health Division
Austin Mental Health Division provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers throughout Victoria. Services in the Mental Health Division are located across Austin Health and the community. Employees may be redeployed within the MHD. All mental health services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery-oriented practice and supports decision-making. This approach to client wellbeing builds on the strengths of the individual working in partnership with their treating team. It encompasses the principles of self-determination and individualised treatment and care.
Austin Health’s Older Adult Mental Health Community Team provides person-centred, recovery-oriented care to older adults experiencing, or at risk of, serious mental illness. The multidisciplinary team—including clinicians, medical staff and Lived and Living Experience (LLE) experts—works collaboratively to deliver trauma-informed, evidence-based support that includes families, carers, and kin. The team fosters a culture of collaboration, shared learning, and mutual respect to ensure holistic, high-quality care that promotes recovery, dignity, and wellbeing in the community.
About the role
The Mental Health Nurse RPN3 provides specialist nursing care across community settings. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework, the role supports the delivery of high-quality, person-centred mental health care for older adults with complex psychosocial, cognitive, and functional needs.
The Mental Health Nurse will undertake clinical and functional assessments, whilst providing discipline specific input to the team fostering strong therapeutic relationships with consumers, families, carers, and service partners.
About you
To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage with consumers, families/carers, colleagues, and external service providers.
- Experience in mental health nursing, including experience working with older adults.
- AHPRA Registered Nurse with a Postgraduate qualification in mental health nursing or equivalent.
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Julie Hume, Divisional Manager Adult and Older Adult Services at Julie.Hume@austin.org.au
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Friday 27 February 2026
