Metro South Addictions and Mental Health Service are looking for a Clinical Nurse Consultant - Forensic Liaison Officer to join their team. This unit delivers a broad range of specialist addiction and mental health services within the Metro South catchment. These include community-based ambulatory and residential services, the care services in the community, psychiatric rehabilitation, consultation-liaison to hospital wards and emergency departments and addiction services. This role provides clinical expertise and consultancy through advanced clinical leadership relevant to the speciality of Forensic Liaison clinical services.

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We are Metro South Health

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim. We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.

We are truly dedicated people who care about our community. We come to work to make a difference. We save lives, changes lives and make the world a better place. We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.

We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to provide clinical expertise and consultancy through advanced clinical leadership relevant to the speciality of Forensic Liaison clinical services. The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) provides direct and indirect care as required and works in collaboration with the Nurse Unit Manager, Nurse Educator and wider NORTH continuing care team to support the clinical unit in provision of safe quality healthcare through exemplary clinical nursing standards of practice for the specialty of Forensic Mental Health.

• Responsible for clinical leadership for Forensic Mental Health services through the application of advanced clinical knowledge, skills and competency according to contemporary practice and standards of care.
• Maintain high level of interpersonal and negotiation skills to inform and train the healthcare team of clinical practice updates and research findings within Forensic Mental Health area.
• Utilise advanced clinical skills and expertise to support nurses in patient care planning, delivery and education.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

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  MS05635672_HP RD (PDF, 414KB)
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  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
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