Associate Nurse Unit Manager - Parent & Infant Unit

Associate Nurse Unit Manager (ANUM) – Parent & Infant Unit | Grampians Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Service – Ballarat
Permanent Full Time | 80 Hours Per Fortnight including a monthly ADO

About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to step into a senior leadership role in a specialist perinatal mental health unit. The Parent & Infant Unit offers a dynamic and supportive environment focused on parent-infant relationships, recovery based care, and family centred treatment. 

As the ANUM, you’ll work closely with the Nurse Unit Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team, support clinical decision making, and ensure safe, high quality care is delivered. The role offers strong collaboration with the Perinatal Community Team and a focus on continuous professional development within a purpose built service.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee clinical care and daily operations of the unit

• Complete complex bio-psychosocial assessments and risk planning

• Develop and implement individualised family treatment plans

• Provide clinical supervision and mentoring to staff

• Facilitate group education and individual interventions

• Support policy, compliance, and service improvement initiatives

Skills & experience

• AHPRA registered Nurse (Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 3)

• Working towards or holds postgraduate mental health nursing quals

• Understanding of perinatal mental illness and infant-parent attachment

• Skilled in dyadic observations and recovery-based care

• Valid Working with Children Check and Victorian Driver Licence

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Interested?
Click APPLY, or for a confidential discussion contact Netta Clark, Nurse Unit Manager on 03 5320 8712.

If you’re a current Grampians Health employee, please sign in via the Employee Login or Intranet Careers Page before applying.

We’re reviewing applications as they come in. This position will remain open until filled.

About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Culture & Benefits 

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Access to Staff Fitness program
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city.  Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping.  Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat

Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.