About the Opportunity

If you are passionate about primary health care and love a challenge, we’d love to hear from you. Based at Acacia Prison in Wooroloo, WA, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive clinical documentation with a focus on mental health for individual consultations and facility requirements.

Utilizing your clinical expertise and advanced specialist skills, you will support new staff members, supervise junior Registered Nurses and Enrolled Nurses, and contribute to the management of projects aligned with quality improvement and policy development. Additionally, we offer free onsite car parking and lunchtime cooked meals provided on site.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide a comprehensive and accurate health assessment for patients.
• Manage change and be proactive in uncertain and unpredictable patient’s health situations and work efficiently within the constraints of correctional environments and increasing patient acuity.
• Provide clinical leadership that demonstrates a higher-level assessment skills and clinical knowledge and experience in Mental Health.

About you - your ideal skills & experience

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Comprehensive clinical documentation skills
• Significant post graduate experience in Mental Health
• Clinical knowledge and clinical problem-solving skills
• Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication
• Commitment to ongoing personal and professional development
• Experience within a correctional or acute environment, or similar, is preferred.

This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes a federal police check as an essential selection component for this role.

Serco requires employees in this role to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. Please consider this requirement when submitting your application.

About us – Serco & proud

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone has a vital role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000+ globally and 14,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including defence, justice, immigration, healthcare, facilities management & citizen services. To learn more please visit

Why Join Us

• You’d be joining a company that delivers essential public services (in partnership with governments) that impact a better future for communities , & those in our care.
• You’ll get to have an impact on how we do things: Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers & action.
• We Invest in you: Accelerate your career through our learning & development opportunities – think skills-based training, defined career pathways & fantastic internal mobility opportunities across the group!

If you’re inspired to make a positive difference, apply now.

For any additional questions, or to learn more, please contact me – Karis Daniele - 0419 727 433

Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging