Make a Difference in Mental Health Care Every Day!

Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services (MSAMHS) as a Clinical Nurse within the Wellbeing Team. Working in a recovery-focused environment, you'll provide advanced mental health nursing care, crisis assessment, brief interventions, and clinical leadership to support people experiencing mental health challenges and suicidal distress.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Wellbeing Team, you will provide advanced, person-centred mental health care to consumers experiencing acute distress and situational crises. Working autonomously and collaboratively, you will contribute to quality care, clinical leadership, and continuous service improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive assessments, safety planning and evidence-based interventions for consumers experiencing mental health concerns and suicidal distress.
• Deliver expert clinical leadership and coordinate care for consumers with complex mental health needs.
• Support quality improvement, risk management, and adherence to professional standards and clinical governance frameworks.
• Mentor and support staff and students while contributing to education, research and service development.

About you:

You are a compassionate and experienced Registered Nurse who is committed to recovery-focused mental health care and achieving positive outcomes for consumers.

Your Skills and Experience

• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in mental health nursing practice and assessment.
• Strong leadership, communication and clinical decision-making skills.
• Ability to work autonomously while fostering collaborative multidisciplinary relationships.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement, education and professional development.

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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 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)
  
  MS07686236 Role Description (PDF)