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Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services as a Clinical Nurse Consultant – Clinical Care Coordinator and play a pivotal role in supporting individuals following a suicidal crisis. Working across hospital and community settings, you will provide advanced clinical leadership, strengthen partnerships with The Way Back Support Service, and help deliver coordinated, person-centred care that improves recovery outcomes and reduces suicide risk.

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Your new role:

As the Clinical Nurse Consultant – Clinical Care Coordinator, you will provide expert clinical leadership and consultancy to support the delivery of high-quality mental health care across Metro South Health. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and community partners, you will help ensure seamless care pathways for consumers accessing The Way Back Support Service.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical leadership and specialist mental health nursing expertise to support safe, recovery-focused care.
• Coordinate referrals, care pathways and service integration between Metro South Health and The Way Back Support Service.
• Lead quality improvement, education and clinical governance initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient outcomes.
• Build strong partnerships with multidisciplinary teams, consumers, carers and external stakeholders to support continuity of care.

About you:

You are an experienced and compassionate mental health nurse who is passionate about improving outcomes for people experiencing suicidal crisis and complex psychosocial needs.

What You'll Bring

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).
• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in mental health nursing, including risk assessment, care coordination and recovery-oriented practice.
• Exceptional communication, consultation and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and lead across services.
• Proven ability to drive quality improvement, support clinical governance and provide education and mentorship to others.

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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)
  
  MS07685475_NG Role Description (PDF)
  
  MS07685475_HP Role Description (PDF)