Clinical Nurse – Make a Difference in Acute Mental Health!

Join Metro South Health’s Acute Response Team as a Clinical Nurse and deliver advanced specialist care for children and adolescents presenting with acute mental health needs in the Emergency Department. Lead with clinical expertise, support your team, and make a lasting difference to young people and their families!

Job details

About your role

As a Clinical Nurse in the Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) Acute Response Team, you'll provide advanced specialist nursing care to children, adolescents, and their families presenting with acute mental health concerns at Logan and Redland Hospital Emergency Departments.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver expert acute mental health assessments and care planning.
• Lead clinical decision-making and support safe, person-centred care.
• Provide direction, mentorship, and supervision to nursing staff and students.
• Apply evidence-based practice and participate in clinical research and audits.
• Contribute to service improvement, patient flow, and enhanced emergency care experiences.
• Work collaboratively with psychiatrists, multidisciplinary teams, and families to achieve the best outcomes.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will bring advanced mental health nursing expertise, leadership, and a commitment to compassionate care for young people.

You will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical skills in child and youth mental health nursing.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and clinical decision-making.
• Ability to mentor, supervise, and support other nurses and students.
• Experience in complex acute care environments with a multidisciplinary team.
• Commitment to professional development, quality improvement, and research.
• A Post graduate qualification or currently enrolled in a post graduate program in Mental Health Nursing (highly desirable).
• Current Credentialing as a Mental Health Nurse through the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (desirable).

What we can offer you:

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

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 Metro South Health:

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

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

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

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS10662349 Role Description (PDF, 433KB)
  Role Description