Looking for more than just a nursing job? Join the Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Services as a Clinical Nurse Consultant (Assertive Mobile Youth Outreach Service) and experience the unique opportunity to deliver care that truly matters – while living in one of Australia’s most beautiful and relaxed tropical regions. You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership and expertise at an advanced nursing practice level for the provision and coordination of evidence-based person-centred care in accordance with organisational goals for a defined area or specialty.

Job details

About us:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers an area of 142,900 square kilometres. We go as far as Tully in the south, Cow Bay in the north and Croydon in the west.

About you:

In your new role you will:

• Implement and evaluate within the service unit (AMYOS), quality activities in professional and mental health practice to continually improve the care of adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems who are difficult to engage, exhibit high risk behaviour or show risk of deterioration.
• Develop working partnerships with non-government and government agencies that contribute to improved outcomes for consumers, providing consultation and clinical advice, enhanced co-operation and utilising effective community engagement skills.
• Provide high level clinical and professional leadership on the development of evidence-based clinical policy and practice, service development, information management, data collection and dissemination, quality improvement activities, research and evaluation projects and the maintaining of appropriate records related to service delivery, performance and outcome measurements.
• Effectively manage self and provide high level clinical education and supervision pertaining to routine tasks for students and less experienced staff with the support of senior clinical staff to develop staff to enable fulfilment of role responsibilities.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

• Generous superannuation
• Salary packaging
• Annual incremental increases
• Career training and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland

Further information

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

Applicants are to apply online. If the information requested in the ‘how to apply’ section is not provided, you may not meet the requirements for further consideration of your application.

Documents

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

• CAH662384 Role description (PDF, 436KB)
  Role Description
  
  1. CHHHS Information for Applicants v.20 (PDF, 939KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  DOH COI Guideline P9 to P14 (PDF, 772KB)
  Information Package for Applicants