Make a Difference in Emergency Mental Health Nursing!

Join our Emergency Department Mental Health team as a Permanent Full-Time or Permanent Part-Time Clinical Nurse, delivering advanced mental health assessment, recovery-focused care and clinical leadership within a supportive multidisciplinary environment.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within the Emergency Department Mental Health (EDMH) team, you'll provide advanced clinical care to consumers experiencing acute mental health concerns while leading best practice, supporting colleagues and contributing to service improvement in a dynamic 24/7 emergency environment.

• Deliver comprehensive mental health assessments and recovery-focused nursing care.
• Provide clinical leadership, expert decision-making and support to the multidisciplinary team.
• Coordinate complex consumer care, risk management and Mental Health Act 2016 requirements.
• Contribute to education, quality improvement, research and continuous service development.

About you:

You're an experienced Mental Health Registered Nurse who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about delivering compassionate, evidence-based care.

• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse with mental health experience.
• Strong assessment, clinical decision-making and risk management skills.
• Excellent communication and ability to build collaborative multidisciplinary relationships.
• Passion for mentoring others, quality improvement and delivering person-centred care.

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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)
  
  MS08689222 Role Description (PDF)