Mental Health and Wellbeing Careers

AWH serves as the largest regional healthcare provider between Sydney and Melbourne, situated in the twin cities of Albury and Wodonga. With a dedicated team of over 3,000 professionals, we proudly service a population of 300,000 across North-East Victoria and Southern NSW.

Our extensive network encompasses two primary hospital campuses and an additional 22 sites, delivering a diverse range of emergency, surgical, women and children’s, community, mental health, allied health, and sub-acute services.

A career in mental health and wellbeing allows choice and flexibility throughout your working life. It provides challenge and an opportunity to work in many different streams and organisations, as diverse and varied as your interests, including:

• Public and Private Health Care Organisations
• Child and adolescent, adult, and older persons mental health services
• Acute, community, rehabilitation and long-term care focused settings
• Local, State and Commonwealth Government roles
• Forensics, Addictions and Specialist Services
• Mental Health based research opportunities
• Recognition through formal credentialing as a Mental Health Nurse and ability to work in primary services such as GP clinics

We’re on an exciting growth and transformation journey, and we’d love you to be part of it!

We have a range of benefits and opportunities that make working at Albury Wodonga Health a great choice. You can read all about our benefits here. 

Working with Albury Wodonga Health will provide you with an opportunity to embed your skills, practices and experience and build a strong foundation for your long-term career within the mental health and wellbeing sector.

We have a focus on continuous education and professional development, and provide a range of opportunities to extend yourself, network with other talented professionals, and support the progression of staff toward their career goals.

You can find out more about our clinical education here. 

We sure can! 

Regional Mental Health Workforce Incentive Program

AWH has access to the Regional Mental Health Workforce Incentive program. The Incentive program is designed by the Department of Health to support the attraction, relocation, and retention of mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers to Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Services across rural and regional Victoria.

Candidates relocating may be eligible for grants of up to $20,000 to cover expenses such as removalist, travel fees, accommodation costs, school fees, etc. For a more detailed understanding of the incentive program, visit the Rural Workforce Agency Victoria.

AWH Workforce Navigator - here to help make your move as easy as possible

Albury Wodonga Health have dedicated experts available to help discuss your options and assist with relocation to the region to grow you career with us. We can answer all your questions about the region, what life is like here, and connect you with local schools, resources, clubs, real estate agents and much more.

Contact our dedicated Workforce Navigator to book a one-on-one chat about your options for relocation via navigator@awh.org.au.

You can read more about our region, and why it’s a wonderful place to live work and play here.  

In response to the 2021 Royal Commission into Mental Health and Wellbeing, Albury Wodonga Health are redesigning our service, so it is recovery oriented, trauma informed, culturally sensitive, family inclusive and gender and sexuality affirming. These changes will improve our processes, operations, programs, and outcomes to ensure that consumers, carers, families, kin, and community members are at the heart/centre of our service.

Learn more about this transformation and what it means here.  

Albury Wodonga Health’s Mental Health Service provides specialist clinical assessment, treatment and on-going care to people who have, or who are at risk of a serious mental illness or suicide. Across a range of disciplines, they support people of all ages including people with co-occurring substance use problems. Person centred care is provided through a recovery focused model for both urgent and non-urgent cases. 

Find out more about our services here. 

AWH Mental Health Services covers a wide geographical area, spanning 50,000 square kilometres from Southern New South Wales, to North East Victoria. Both short-term crisis support and longer term case managed continuing care is available in the region.  

View a map of our region here.

That’s great to hear, as we’d love to welcome you to the team!

You can view all current vacancies here.

You can read all about our graduate mental health nursing program here.

You can read about our Transition to Specialty Practice Program here.