The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Mental Health Clinician – Inner Melbourne Community Team

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Full Time, permanent opportunity
• Provide treatment, care and support to consumers and their networks with complex mental health needs
• Be part of a pilot team integrating Open Dialogue with evidence-based practice through the Victorian Collaborative Centre

About The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS):

The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) is one of Victoria’s leading public health services, providing care across acute, subacute and community settings. Our Mental Health Services support consumers, families and carers through inpatient, community, residential and specialist programs — available 24/7.

Join our Inner Melbourne Community Mental Health Team, supporting consumers across Carlton, North Melbourne and the CBD. We deliver an innovative Open Dialogue Model of Care as part of a research partnership with the Victorian Collaborative Centre of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Our team combines clinical expertise, peer support and strong family involvement.

This role is part of new growth funding to expand the Inner Melbourne Community Team, successfully launched earlier in 2025. We are seeking a Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3.

Your new role:

Core duties the candidate would be required to perform

• Co-facilitate Open Dialogue network meetings with consumers and their supports to collaboratively develop treatment plans
• Provide crisis responses as well as ongoing care and support for consumers with complex mental health needs and their networks
• Work collaboratively with external service providers, including academic partners leading the pilot evaluation

About you:

• Registered Psychiatric Nurse with postgraduate qualifications in mental health nursing
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability
• Ability to work flexibly and tolerate uncertainty
• Willingness to share your emotional experience within Open Dialogue meetings through reflective practice

Benefit of working with the Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services:

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• 5 weeks annual leave, plus monthly ADOs (for full-time staff)
• Salary packaging options to increase your take-home pay and discounted fitness and health facility access with Fitness Passport

• Join a supportive, values-based organisation with a focus on staff wellbeing!

Interested?

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, we would love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, please contact:

Jacqui Fischer - Director of Community Operations - 0413 883 889

OR

Kyle Piscopo - Team Leader Inner Melbourne Community Team - 0448 567 517

The RMH stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.