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Clinical Nurse Consultant - Alcohol and Drug Assessment Unit
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Shape Patient Outcomes in Addiction Health
Join Metro South Health as a Clinical Nurse Consultant within the Alcohol and Drug Assessment Unit (ADAU). Lead high-quality, person-centred care while driving clinical excellence, education, and service improvement in a specialist addiction setting.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Nursing |
| Classification | Nurse Grade 7 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS04680427 |
| Closing date | 27-Apr-2026 |
| Job duration | Permanent |
| Contact person | Heidi Secher-Jorgensen |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 7100 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As a Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC), you will provide advanced clinical leadership and expert consultancy in Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering safe, high-quality, person-centred care across inpatient and outpatient settings. Key responsibilities include:
- Provide advanced clinical expertise and consultancy across ADAU services
- Lead and support safe, evidence-based, person-centred care delivery
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient outcomes
- Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, and service innovation
About you:
You are an experienced and confident nursing leader with a passion for addiction and substance use care. You bring strong clinical expertise, leadership capability, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes. You will demonstrate:
- Advanced clinical knowledge in Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to work autonomously and within multidisciplinary teams
- Commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and education
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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:
The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.
We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.
We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.
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.
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