Lead Change. Inspire Recovery. Make a Lasting Difference.

Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services as a Clinical Nurse and use your expertise to deliver exceptional, recovery-focused care while leading clinical excellence in a supportive, collaborative community mental health team. This is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of consumers and their families while advancing your leadership and specialist nursing career.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Adult Community Mental Health Bayside Team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, recovery-oriented mental health care while providing clinical leadership, supporting service excellence, and contributing to the ongoing development of nursing practice.

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, care planning, coordination and delivery of specialist mental health nursing care for consumers with complex and diverse needs.
• Lead and support the multidisciplinary team through expert clinical decision-making, mentoring, education, and the promotion of evidence-based, person-centred practice.
• Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, and risk management initiatives to ensure safe, effective and contemporary models of care.

About you:

You are a confident and compassionate Registered Nurse who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about delivering exceptional mental health care while leading and supporting others.

• Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and experience in adult mental health nursing, including the assessment, planning and management of consumers with complex mental health needs.
• Proven leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to mentor colleagues, coordinate care and build strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous improvement, clinical governance and delivering safe, high-quality, 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.

• We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS08688224 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)