Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time or part-time
Salary: $60,000 - $70,000
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 5347
About the role:
Are you a passionate healthcare professional who has Mental Health qualification and experience, looking for a meaningful opportunity to make a difference in the lives of mental health consumers?
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Services team are committed to supporting staff wellbeing in a dynamic, busy environment and support professional development through learning opportunities and partnerships with external training providers.
Western Health is offering sponsorship to internationally qualified nurses who are looking to move to Melbourne, Australia.
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About you:
Opportunities are available across:
Registered Psychiatric Nurse
Western Inpatient Psychiatric Unit (WIPU) – Women’s Only Adult Acute Inpatient Unit
Footscray Hospital
Permanent Part-Time/Permanent Full-Time positions available
The Western Inpatient Psychiatric Unit (WIPU) are looking for RPNs who are passionate about women’s health. WIPU is a dedicated women’s-only adult acute inpatient unit based at Footscray, offering women who are experiencing severe mental ill health a trauma-informed and recovery-focused individually tailored experience to care.
Registered Psychiatric Nurse – Unit 2 (Adult Inpatient Units)
Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre
Permanent Part-Time/Permanent Full-Time positions available
The Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre is a multistorey facility with two Mental Health Adult Acute Units, each comprising of 26 beds across Intensive Care Area, Medium Care Area and General Care Area.
As a recipient of the Comprehensive Care Award, we are recognised for our commitment to continuous improvement and providing exceptional care. Our state-of-the-art facility is also a finalist for a Victorian Health Building Authority (VHBA) award, reflecting our contemporary approach to care provision. With three of our projects shortlisted for the 2024 Western Health Best Care Awards, we are at the forefront of advancing best care practices.
Registered Psychiatric Nurse - Western Health Pool (Inpatient and Community)
Permanent Part-Time/Permanent Full-Time positions available
Our Pool is the heartbeat of Western Health, ensuring seamless coverage across all our campuses. As a Pool Registered Psychiatric Nurse you will be contracted to fill mental health vacancies that arise daily across our inpatient units and/or community-based locations (depending on your experience).
Mental Health Pool provides you with the security of permanent employment, whilst providing you with exposure and invaluable experience across a variety of mental health clinical settings.
But that's not all! The future is even brighter with Westwards, our innovative workforce initiative which offers Western Health staff opportunities to work with other health organisations through short term contracts. Westwards delivers flexible working arrangements, career advancement possibilities, skill transferability, and ample room for personal and professional development.
About Western Health:
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges. We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions.
Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
Why join us?
Compensation and benefits
Learning and development opportunities
Community impact and inclusion
Organisational culture and environment
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Closing date: 11:59pm on 23 October 2025.
Enquiries: For further information about this role, contact the Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Unit via email [email protected].
Western Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining diversity in our workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, an Immunisation Status Clearance and a Working with Children Check (if applicable).
Western Health does not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from recruitment agencies.