Mental Health Nurse

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Supportive work environment with trusted leadership
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing programs
• Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture
• Long-term, secure employment with a global company

Make an impact at Serco

The Mental Health Nurse role at Auckland South Corrections Facility (ASCF) offers the opportunity to provide specialised care to inmates facing mental health challenges. You will assess mental health needs, develop care plans, and implement interventions to support rehabilitation. Working with a multidisciplinary team, you will ensure a safe and culturally responsive healthcare environment, promoting dignity and wellbeing for every individual.

Serco is a place for you.

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• A current New Zealand Registered Nurse practicing certificate.
• At least 2 years of clinical experience, ideally in mental health, primary care, or acute/emergency settings.
• Strong assessment and crisis intervention skills, with experience managing individuals at risk of self-harm.
• An understanding of cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity, particularly in relation to Māori health needs
• A strong commitment to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi & Te Tiriti o Waitangi
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Resilience, empathy, and a nonjudgmental approach
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills in a multidisciplinary healthcare environment

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, immigration, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility.

In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals.

Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, immigration, and community services.

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’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco.