Lead Specialist Mental Health Care as a Clinical Nurse Consultant

Step into a rewarding leadership role where you’ll shape specialist mental health care, and make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes every day

Job details

Your new role:

This is an advanced clinical leadership role responsible for delivering expert mental health nursing practice, with a specialist focus on Clozapine therapy across community and inpatient settings.

• Provide high-level clinical expertise, consultancy and leadership in mental health nursing, ensuring safe, evidence-based, person-centred care outcomes
• Lead the coordination, initiation, monitoring and optimisation of Clozapine therapy, including delivery of clinic services and GP Shared Care programs
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to support clinical governance, service improvement and integrated care across the continuum
• Drive quality, education, and research initiatives while supporting workforce development and fostering a positive, high-performing clinical environment

About you:

You are an experienced and highly skilled mental health nurse who brings advanced clinical knowledge, strong leadership capability and a passion for improving consumer outcomes.

• Registered Nurse with current registration and demonstrated advanced expertise in mental health nursing, ideally with experience in Clozapine management
• Proven ability to work autonomously while leading and influencing multidisciplinary teams in complex clinical environments
• Strong clinical judgement, critical thinking and communication skills, with the ability to provide expert advice, education and mentorship
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous improvement, 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 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.

• MS05680860 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)