Registered Nurse Drug & Alcohol

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:

• Benefits @Serco, which includes a great range of career support programs, wellbeing packages, and financial benefits, available through us and our selected partners, including access to Fitness Passport
• The opportunity to broaden your experience and learn from expert colleagues whilst applying your skills in new ways, particularly in drug and alcohol nursing
• 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 and action

Make an impact at Serco

As a Registered Nurse – Drug & Alcohol, you will provide targeted and compassionate care to individuals experiencing substance use issues in a correctional health setting. Your work will focus on clinical assessment, case management, and harm minimisation—helping to support rehabilitation, recovery, and long-term change.

This role is a full-time position requiring availability for a 24/7 roster with 10, 8, or 6-hour shifts, and includes 6 weeks of annual leave.

As a Drug & Alcohol Nurse , you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Delivering evidence-based nursing care for patients affected by substance use
• Assessing and managing intoxication, withdrawal symptoms, and Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST)
• Supporting patient care plans in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team
• Referring patients to appropriate health professionals and support services
• Providing clinical guidance and acting as a triage point for substance-related health concerns
• Leading and participating in case reviews for patients with identified AOD needs
• Ensuring documentation is accurate and reflects best practice
• Contributing to a safe, culturally sensitive, and respectful healthcare environment

Serco is a place for you

To be successful in tis role you’ll have:

• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse

• Minimum of one year of experience in primary health, acute care or AOD settings

• Knowledge of substance use management, including withdrawal care and pharmacotherapy

• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with diverse team members and stakeholders

• A commitment to ethical, trauma-informed, and culturally respectful practice

• High levels of personal integrity and accountability

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, 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.

Please note: This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a State and Federal Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.

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, and community services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, 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.

If you have any questions or would like a confidential chat, feel free to reach out to Beth Peeney on: +61 8 9450 9647 or beth.peeney@serco-ap.com

Impact a better future at Serco.