Appli­ca­tions must be sub­mit­ted by Fri­day 19 Decem­ber, 2025 11:55 PM

Posi­tion details

• Award/​Classification: Nurs­es and Mid­wives (Tas­man­ian State Ser­vice) Award, Reg­is­tered Nurse,
  Grade 8, Lev­el 4 
• Salary: $149,807 per annum 
• Salary: Plus oncall, post­grad­u­ate and trav­el allowances 
• Employ­ment type: Per­ma­nent, full-time
• Region: North, North West 
• Loca­tion - 63-65 Cameron Street

Our Vision:

Join the Adult Men­tal Health Ser­vices North/​North West Exec­u­tive in shap­ing the future of acute men­tal health care in Tas­ma­nia. As Direc­tor of Nurs­ing for Adult Men­tal Health Ser­vices North/​North West, you’ll lead a pas­sion­ate team ded­i­cat­ed to deliv­er­ing per­son-cen­tred, recov­ery-focused care across the North and North West of Tas­ma­nia. This is your oppor­tu­ni­ty to influ­ence ser­vice inno­va­tion, cham­pi­on clin­i­cal excel­lence, and make a real dif­fer­ence in the lives of indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties. If you’re ready to lead with vision and com­pas­sion, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role:

• Lead and man­age the opti­mal oper­a­tion of our bed-based Men­tal Health Ser­vices across North and North West Tasmania. 
• Pro­vide clin­i­cal lead­er­ship to staff and man­age­r­i­al over­sight for des­ig­nat­ed ser­vices in your port­fo­lio.
• Deliv­er high-lev­el advice on clin­i­cal stan­dards, edu­ca­tion, and com­plex ser­vice issues. 
• Dri­ve strate­gic direc­tion for nurs­ing ser­vices, pro­fes­sion­al stan­dards, and qual­i­ty of care.
• Build strong part­ner­ships with inter­nal and exter­nal stake­hold­ers to enhance inte­gra­tion and out­comes.
• Cham­pi­on con­tin­u­ous qual­i­ty improve­ment and client safe­ty initiatives. 
• Con­tribute to ser­vice devel­op­ment, pol­i­cy review, and change man­age­ment as part of the lead­er­ship team. 
• Progress the imple­men­ta­tion of the Statewide Men­tal Health Ser­vices Strate­gic Pri­or­i­ties.
• Sup­port our com­pli­ance against the Nation­al Safe­ty and Qual­i­ty Health Ser­vice Stan­dards.

Why Tas­ma­nia:

The Depart­ment of Health Tas­ma­nia over­sees var­i­ous hos­pi­tals across the state, includ­ing the Roy­al Hobart Hos­pi­tal, Launce­s­ton Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, North­west Region­al Hos­pi­tal, and Mersey Com­mu­ni­ty Hos­pi­tal, as well as dis­trict hos­pi­tals and ambu­lance ser­vices. Addi­tion­al­ly, it pro­vides com­mu­ni­ty health, men­tal health, and pri­ma­ry health­care ser­vices to the Tas­man­ian com­mu­ni­ty through more than 300 sites.

Tas­ma­nia, Aus­trali­a’s only island state, offers unpar­al­leled nat­ur­al beau­ty and a lux­u­ri­ous lifestyle. Pur­su­ing your health career in Tasmania’s pub­lic health sys­tem means build­ing strong con­nec­tions with col­leagues and patients. It also means embrac­ing a lifestyle where you can enjoy extra­or­di­nary expe­ri­ences out­side of work while mak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant impact on the com­mu­ni­ty dur­ing work.

You will need:

• An in-depth knowl­edge and under­stand­ing of con­tem­po­rary men­tal health nurs­ing prac­tice, includ­ing rel­e­vant leg­is­la­tion, Agency poli­cies and ANMC competencies. 
• Com­pre­hen­sive under­stand­ing of, and expe­ri­ence in, lead­ing and imple­ment­ing con­tem­po­rary, inte­grat­ed, con­sumer focused care across a num­ber of spec­i­fied spe­cial­ist prac­tice settings. 
• Proven high lev­el expe­ri­ence and abil­i­ty in man­ag­ing human, finan­cial and mate­r­i­al resources includ­ing the capac­i­ty to mea­sure and mon­i­tor out­comes to opti­mise over­all ser­vice effi­cien­cy and effectiveness.

Note: - Please refer to the State­ment of Duties for all the selec­tion cri­te­ria of this posi­tion to 

address in your appli­ca­tion.

Details of appoint­ment:

Per­ma­nent, full time, day work­er (with on-call) work­ing 76 hours per fort­night, to com­mence as soon as pos­si­ble.

*notwith­stand­ing hours to be nego­ti­at­ed with the suc­cess­ful appli­cant.

Appli­cants should note that, for a peri­od of twelve months from the date of pub­li­ca­tion, this selec­tion process may be used to fill sub­se­quent or sim­i­lar full time, part time, and casu­al vacan­cies.

Loca­tion: Launce­s­ton, Burnie - Tas­ma­nia

Salary: $149,807 per annum. Our Employ­er 12% super­an­nu­a­tion con­tri­bu­tion is on top of this amount.

• Salary range is in accor­dance with Nurs­es and Mid­wives (Tas­ma­nia State Ser­vice) Agree­ment 2023.

• On-Call, Trav­el and Post­grad­u­ate Qual­i­fi­ca­tion Allowances are in addi­tion to the salary.

Salary Pack­ag­ing:

You’ll have access to salary pack­age a range of ben­e­fits includ­ing liv­ing expens­es up to $9,010 +
$2,650 in meal enter­tain­ment each FBT year + oth­er ben­e­fits if eli­gi­ble.

Ben­e­fits avail­able to eli­gi­ble can­di­dates:

• Pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment.

• A range of leave enti­tle­ments, includ­ing study leave and Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment

Sup­port.

• Fit­ness Pass­port – You, and your fam­i­ly can access 40+ fit­ness facil­i­ties across Tas­ma­nia for just $14.50 per week per per­son, or $28.05 for a fam­i­ly.

• Trav­el and relo­ca­tion assis­tance sup­port avail­able up to $15,000 for eli­gi­ble appointees from over­seas, and up to $10,000 for appointees from inter­state.

More infor­ma­tion about our Employ­ee Ben­e­fits can be found here

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty:

Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be required to meet the essen­tial cri­te­ria:

• Reg­is­tered with the Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Board of Aus­tralia as a Reg­is­tered Nurse and
pos­sess spe­cial­ist ter­tiary grad­u­ate or post grad­u­ate men­tal health/​psychiatric nurs­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tion; or com­plet­ed, pri­or to the trans­fer of nurse edu­ca­tion to the tertiary sec­tor, an accred­it­ed hos­pi­tal based pro­gram that lead to reg­is­tra­tion as a psy­chi­atric nurse by the rel­e­vant nurse reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ty with­in Aus­tralia, New Zealand, Cana­da or the Unit­ed King­dom.

Appli­cants should note the fol­low­ing cri­te­ria are desir­able:

• Cur­rent Dri­ver’s Licence

• Holds or is work­ing towards rel­e­vant ter­tiary qual­i­fi­ca­tions

Note: - Please refer to the Appli­ca­tion Guide for more infor­ma­tion of pre-employ­ment check.

How to apply:

Appli­ca­tions Close: Fri­day, 19 Decem­ber 2025 at 11:55pm

For more infor­ma­tion:

Appli­cants who require fur­ther infor­ma­tion are encour­aged to con­tact the Con­tact per­son for
detailed infor­ma­tion about the vacancy.

Jar­rod Ban­non
Group Direc­tor Adult Men­tal Health Ser­vices North/​North West
jarrod.​bannon@​ths.​tas.​gov.​au

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