Lead with purpose. Shape the future of child and youth mental health.

An exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated interprofessional team and make a meaningful difference in the lives of children and young people. Bring your clinical expertise, collaborative leadership and passion for innovation to help shape high-quality, recovery-focused mental health services at the Logan Youth Step-Up Step-Down Unit.

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Your new role:

As the operational leader of the Logan Youth Step-Up Step-Down Unit, you will play a pivotal role in providing strategic direction, clinical leadership and operational oversight to a multidisciplinary team, supporting the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care for young people experiencing mental health challenges.

• Lead and manage the multidisciplinary team, providing operational direction, clinical leadership and mentoring to support high-quality service delivery and positive outcomes for young people.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative partnerships with Mind Australia, Metro South Child and Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS) and key stakeholders to support the effective operation and ongoing development of the service.
• Drive service improvement, innovation and evidence-based practice, using clinical expertise, data and contemporary models of care to enhance service delivery, workforce capability and patient outcomes.

About you:

You are an accomplished health professional and collaborative leader who brings the clinical expertise, strategic thinking and people leadership skills to inspire teams, navigate complexity and drive positive change in child and youth mental health services.

• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing multidisciplinary teams, with the ability to foster a positive, collaborative and high-performing team culture.
• Advanced clinical knowledge and professional judgement, with the ability to guide complex clinical decision-making, support effective care coordination and promote safe, compassionate and evidence-based practice.
• Highly developed communication, interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to influence, negotiate, manage change and build productive partnerships across diverse professional groups and organisations.

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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)
  
  MS11696075_HP (PDF)
  
  MS11696075_NG (PDF)