Lead Recovery-Focused Mental Health Care in a Dynamic Inpatient Setting

Make a meaningful difference through clinical leadership, compassionate care, and excellence in mental health nursing.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Yugaipa Mental Health Inpatient Unit at Redland Hospital, you will play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care to consumers with complex mental health needs while supporting the development of nursing practice and service excellence.

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, care planning, coordination, and specialist mental health nursing care for consumers with complex presentations.
• Lead and support nursing and multidisciplinary teams through expert clinical decision-making, mentorship, shift coordination, and role modelling of best practice.
• Drive quality and safety initiatives through participation in clinical audits, risk management activities, service improvement projects, and adherence to National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.

About you:

You are a skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse who thrives in a complex mental health environment and is passionate about delivering person-centred, recovery-oriented care.

• Demonstrated experience in mental health nursing with advanced clinical assessment, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and support healthcare teams while fostering a positive, collaborative, and patient-focused culture.
• Commitment to professional excellence, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and ongoing learning, with postgraduate mental health qualifications viewed favourably.

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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 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 - Copy (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS06684400 Role Description (PDF)