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.

Senior Registered Psychiatric Nurse

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Community Senior Key Clinician working in adult community mental health
• Team with homeless portfolio based in CBD of Melbourne
• Combination of assertive outreach in the community and clinic-based work
• Full Time or Part Time negotiable (fixed term until 12 June 2026)

About The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH):

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Victoria’s largest and busiest public hospitals, providing comprehensive acute, subacute, and mental health services across our city and region. For more than 170 years, RMH has been dedicated to advancing health care, research, and education, with our people at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to delivering safe, person-centred, and world-class care — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Your new role:

Community Team 1 (CT1) provides care to consumers living in Melbourne’s CBD and Inner West, and holds the homeless portfolio for RMH Mental Health Services. The team uses an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model, offering intensive, community-based care through a team approach. This includes medication management, psychosocial support, psychological interventions, crisis assessment, and referral to housing, financial, and vocational supports.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN4) or a suitably skilled RPN3 ready to step into greater responsibility and autonomy. This is a unique opportunity to work with complex consumers in a supportive team and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable members of our community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply your extensive psychiatric nursing experience in the delivery of evidence-based treatment and interventions, ensuring the provision of high-quality assertive outreach and care coordination of services to adults experiencing mental health and AOD issues as well as homelessness.
• Work with a team of enthusiastic multidisciplined professionals providing assertive outreach and high-quality care to some of Melbourne’s most marginalised people.
• Enjoy the benefits of working closely with colleagues in a combination of clinic based and assertive outreach work in the CBD of Melbourne.

About you:

• Interested in working with homeless consumers directly in the community.
• Possess formal qualifications and registration as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse.
• Enjoy working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of effective evidence-based interventions appropriate to low prevalence disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, personality disorder, relapse prevention and substance abuse.
• Possess established skills including initiative, advanced communication skills and the capacity and willingness to further develop these.
• Demonstrate at least 5 years of experience in the provision of specialist services in public mental health settings with a strong focus on local communities and inter-agency specific knowledge.

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

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging, well serviced by public transport.
• Excellent training, education and development options.
• Interesting variety of work in a very welcoming team, in a unique setting and location.

Interested?

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment.

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All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

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.