Lead with Impact in Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) Acute Care – Clinical Nurse Opportunity at Logan and Redland Hospitals!

Join the CYMHS Acute Response Team as a permanent part-time Clinical Nurse (53 hrs p/f), delivering expert mental health care to children and young people in emergency settings.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the CYMHS Acute Response Team, you will deliver advanced, person-centred mental health care to children and adolescents presenting in emergency departments. Working both autonomously and collaboratively, you'll play a key role in clinical leadership, care coordination, and service excellence.

In this role, you will: 

• Provide advanced assessment, care planning, and intervention for young people with complex mental health needs
• Lead clinical decision-making and support multidisciplinary team care delivery
• Coordinate care and contribute to safe, high-quality outcomes in fast-paced acute environments
• Support service improvement, education, and quality initiatives within the team

About you:

You are a skilled and compassionate mental health nurse with strong clinical judgement and a passion for supporting young people and their families in times of crisis.

You will bring: 

• Advanced clinical skills in child and youth mental health nursing practice
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and clinical leadership capabilities
• Ability to work autonomously and effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and continuous learning

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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.

• We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS04680137 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)