Lead Mental Health Care in the Emergency Department

Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services as a Clinical Nurse – Mental Health Emergency Department in a Permanent Part-Time position. Based at Redland Hospital, you will deliver advanced mental health assessment, crisis intervention, care planning, and clinical leadership within a collaborative multidisciplinary team committed to recovery-focused, person-centred care.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Mental Health Emergency Department team, you will provide advanced clinical care to consumers presenting with acute mental health concerns, ensuring timely assessment, intervention, and recovery-focused treatment. Working autonomously and collaboratively with Emergency Department and multidisciplinary teams, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality mental health services and supporting positive consumer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive mental health and risk assessments for consumers presenting in crisis.
• Provide expert clinical leadership, care coordination, and evidence-based interventions within a fast-paced Emergency Department environment.
• Support multidisciplinary teams through specialist advice regarding mental health care, risk management, and Mental Health Act 2016 legislation.
• Contribute to quality improvement, education, research activities, and service development initiatives.

About you:

You are a skilled and compassionate mental health clinician who thrives in complex clinical environments and is committed to delivering safe, person-centred care.

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and experience in contemporary mental health nursing practice.
• Strong assessment, critical thinking, care planning, and risk management skills.
• Proven ability to provide clinical leadership, mentor others, and work effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with a commitment to recovery-oriented 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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS06685263_NG Role Description (PDF)
  
  MS06685263_HP Role Decsription (PDF)