Lead Recovery-Focused Mental Health Care in the Community!

Join the Logan Acute Care Team and provide specialist mental health assessment, crisis intervention and recovery-focused care for adults experiencing acute mental health concerns. This autonomous and rewarding role combines advanced clinical practice, leadership and community outreach within a multidisciplinary team.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Logan Acute Care Team, you will provide advanced mental health nursing care to consumers experiencing mental health crises across community settings. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver comprehensive assessments, crisis interventions and recovery-focused care while providing clinical leadership and support to colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced mental health assessments, risk assessments, crisis intervention and care planning for consumers in community-based settings.
• Provide clinical leadership, guidance and support to nursing staff and multidisciplinary team members.
• Coordinate and manage complex consumer care, ensuring safe, high-quality and person-centred outcomes.
• Contribute to quality improvement, education, clinical governance and service development initiatives.

About you:

You are an experienced and compassionate mental health nurse who thrives in dynamic community settings and is committed to delivering recovery-oriented care.

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 assessment, risk management and crisis intervention.
• Strong leadership, communication and decision-making skills with the ability to work autonomously.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous improvement and supporting the professional development of 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)
  
  MS07685847 Role Description (PDF)