Advanced Nurse Leader for Co-Responder Mental Health Team

Step into a senior clinical role supporting mental health crisis responses across Logan, Cleveland and Woolloongabba. Use your advanced expertise to provide leadership, rapid assessment and improved outcomes through the Co-Responder model with QPS and QAS.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse Consultant (Co-Responder), you will bring advanced clinical expertise to support safe and effective mental health crisis responses across the community. Working in partnership with Queensland Police Service (QPS), Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) and MSAMHS teams. You will:

• Deliver advanced mental health assessment, rapid intervention and person-centred care during crisis responses.
• Provide clinical leadership, consultancy and expert advice across the Co-Responder service.
• Collaborate with QPS, QAS, Team Leaders and multidisciplinary teams to enhance integrated crisis care.
• Lead quality improvement, education, and evidence-based practice initiatives supporting high-quality patient outcomes.

About you:

You are a highly skilled mental health nursing professional who brings advanced clinical judgement, strong autonomy and a passion for improving crisis care outcomes. Your leadership supports safe, compassionate and evidence-based practice. You will bring:

• Advanced mental health nursing expertise, including comprehensive assessment, critical thinking and crisis intervention skills.
• Demonstrated clinical leadership, with the ability to influence practice, guide teams and support integrated care.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with QPS, QAS and multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous improvement and delivering safe, person-centred care.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• 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.
  
  

About us:

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 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.

• MS12670791 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)