Support patient-centred care in Acute Mental Health

Join the PA Acute Care Team in this permanent full-time opportunity, based at the Woolloongabba Community Health Centre. You’ll deliver advanced mental health nursing care, provide clinical leadership and support multidisciplinary responses for consumers experiencing acute mental health concerns.

Job details

Your new role:

In this advanced mental health nursing role, you will provide high-level clinical care, assessment, planning and coordination for consumers with acute and complex mental health needs. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will support recovery-oriented practice, contribute to clinical leadership, and uphold the standards and frameworks that guide Mental Health Services.

You will:

• Provide advanced assessment, problem-solving and care planning for acute mental health consumers
• Deliver safe, person-centred nursing care aligned with the Mental Health Act 2016
• Lead clinical decision-making and support team coordination in complex situations
• Support education, clinical facilitation and development of nursing staff and students
• Contribute to quality improvement, incident review, and evidence-based service development

About you:

You are an experienced mental health clinician with high-level critical thinking, advanced assessment capability and a commitment to recovery-focused, trauma-informed care. You bring strong leadership skills, effective communication and the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary systems.

You will bring:

• Advanced clinical knowledge in acute mental health nursing practice
• Ability to conduct comprehensive physical and mental health assessments, including risk assessments
• Strong leadership, coordination and delegation capability across diverse clinical environments
• Experience supporting and educating junior nursing staff and students
• High-level communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills

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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 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.

• MS12671077 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)