Lead the Future of Addiction and Mental Health Care

Make a meaningful impact through advanced clinical leadership, evidence-based practice, and person-centred care within a progressive and multidisciplinary Addiction Services team.

Job details

Your new role:

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and passionate Clinical Nurse Consultant to provide advanced clinical leadership within Metro South Addiction Services, supporting high-quality, recovery-focused care across a diverse range of Alcohol and Drug programs. 

• Provide expert clinical leadership, consultancy and advanced nursing practice across Addiction Services, including Opioid Treatment Programs, psychosocial interventions and outpatient withdrawal management.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, evidence-based and person-centred care that improves patient outcomes and supports service excellence.    

About you:

You are a highly capable and motivated nursing professional with advanced clinical expertise in Alcohol and Drug Services and a commitment to delivering compassionate, recovery-oriented care. 

• Demonstrated experience in advanced clinical nursing practice within Addiction, Alcohol and Drug, Mental Health or related healthcare settings. 
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence practice and support multidisciplinary collaboration. 

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

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 Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.  We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.  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 - Copy (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05682894 Role Description (PDF)