Step into Leadership and Make a Real Impact in Community Mental Health!

Join a recovery-focused community mental health team as a Clinical Nurse, delivering expert care, leadership and support to adults with complex needs.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the PAH Community Care Team, you will deliver advanced, recovery-focused mental health care to adults with complex and enduring needs. Working both autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team, you will lead clinical decision-making, coordinate care, and support positive outcomes for consumers across community settings. This role also provides leadership in education, quality improvement, and service development.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver advanced clinical assessment, care planning and therapeutic interventions
• Lead and support multidisciplinary team coordination and clinical decision-making
• Provide clinical education, supervision and mentorship to staff and students
• Contribute to quality improvement, research and service development initiatives

About you:

You are a confident and compassionate Clinical Nurse with strong leadership capability and a passion for recovery-oriented mental health care. You bring advanced clinical expertise, sound judgement, and a collaborative approach to working with consumers and multidisciplinary teams.

You will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical skills in mental health assessment, care planning and intervention
• Strong leadership, communication and team collaboration abilities
• Ability to manage complex cases with critical thinking and autonomy
• Commitment to continuous learning, quality improvement and 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:

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)
  
  MS05682197 Role Description (PDF)