Shape Better Outcomes While Leading Mental Health Care in a Fast-Paced Emergency Department!

Deliver advanced, recovery-focused care as a Permanent Full-Time Nurse Practitioner (ED Mental Health) within a dynamic 24/7 emergency department team.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Nurse Practitioner within the Bayside Emergency Department Mental Health Team, you will provide expert, autonomous care to consumers presenting with complex mental health and behavioural concerns. Working in a fast-paced ED setting, you'll play a key role in improving patient flow, outcomes, and models of care.

• Deliver rapid, advanced mental health assessments, diagnosis, and interventions in the ED
• Prescribe and implement evidence-based treatment and care plans within scope of practice
• Lead and support patient flow, ensuring timely decisions, referrals, and continuity of care
• Drive service improvement and innovation, contributing to evolving ED mental health models

About you:

You are a confident and highly skilled Nurse Practitioner who thrives in high-pressure environments and is passionate about delivering person-centred mental health care.

• Endorsed Nurse Practitioner with advanced experience in mental health (ED experience highly regarded)
• Strong clinical judgement with the ability to assess and manage complex, acute presentations
• Excellent communication skills, with a collaborative and compassionate approach to care
• Proven ability to lead, influence, and contribute to quality improvement and service innovation

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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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05682302 Role Description (PDF)