Clozapine Mental Health Nurse

Closes: 25 June 2026

Classification: Registered Nurse Level 2

Salary: $112,841 - $119,223 plus superannuation

Position No: 64584 - 02QU6

Directorate: Canberra Health Services

Advertised (Gazettal date): 16 June 2026

Contact Officer: Erica Campbell on ***email_hidden*** or (02) 5124 7830

What can we offer you

• City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)

About the Role: Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) offers a rewarding opportunity to be part of a service dedicated to delivering high-quality, person-centred care across the ACT. Supporting both young people and adults, MHJHADS provides services in a variety of settings, including inpatient and outpatient facilities, community health centres, justice health environments, and within people’s homes. The service is committed to fostering social inclusion and operates within recovery-focused and harm minimisation frameworks.

Adult Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) teams work across the ACT, guided by established models of care tailored to both adult and older persons’ mental health. These teams respond to diverse community needs through a wide range of programs, including intake, recovery-oriented services, supported and therapeutic accommodation, specialised therapies, neuropsychology, assertive and homelessness outreach, and intensive home-based treatment.

This role is based within the Assertive Community Outreach Service (ACOS), a multidisciplinary team delivering flexible, proactive, and community-based care to individuals experiencing severe and persistent mental illness, including psychotic disorders and severe bipolar disorder. ACOS supports people who may have found it difficult to engage with traditional services, providing consistent, assertive follow-up to improve outcomes, reduce relapse, and address complex challenges such as significant functional impairment, homelessness, and risk of suicide.

Operating seven days a week from 8:30am to 9:00pm, ACOS provides extended hours coverage to ensure continuity and responsiveness of care, with this position participating in a rotating shift roster. The role offers the opportunity to work collaboratively within a supportive team environment, providing clinical management, including care for consumers receiving clozapine, while engaging closely with families, carers, and community partners.

Based at the City Community Health Centre, this position combines team-based care with meaningful outreach work across the ACT, offering a unique and fulfilling opportunity to make a genuine difference in the community.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together

Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community

Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.

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