Lead Advanced Mental Health Care in a Fast-Paced Emergency Setting

Join Metro South Health’s specialist Mental Health Emergency Department team and play a pivotal role in delivering advanced, person-centred care to consumers experiencing acute mental health concerns—while contributing to clinical leadership, service quality and a collaborative, values-driven workplace.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse, you will play a key leadership role in delivering advanced, recovery-focused mental health care to consumers presenting to the Emergency Department with acute mental health concerns.

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, planning and coordination of person-centred care for consumers in acute mental health crisis.
• Work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, providing expert clinical leadership and supporting professional practice, education and research.
• Contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement, incident management and adherence to service protocols and standards.
• Support team coordination, mentoring and portfolio responsibilities across clinical, education, management and research domains.

About you:

You are an experienced mental health nurse who demonstrates advanced clinical skills, sound professional judgement and a commitment to high-quality, person-centred care.

• Proven ability to deliver advanced mental health nursing care, including complex assessment, risk management and evidence-based interventions.
• Strong leadership capability with experience in mentoring colleagues, contributing to education, and supporting positive team culture.
• Demonstrated understanding of clinical governance, quality frameworks, and continuous service improvement.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with a commitment to the values of integrity, compassion, accountability, respect, engagement and excellence.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials! 

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.

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS12671052_HP (PDF)
  
  MS12671052_CN (PDF)