Lead, Influence and Improve Mental Health Outcomes

Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services as a Clinical Nurse Consultant and lead specialist Clozapine care, driving safe, evidence-based practice and improving outcomes for consumers across community and inpatient settings.

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Your new role:

As the Clinical Nurse Consultant - Clozapine Service, you'll provide advanced clinical leadership and expert consultancy to support the safe, effective delivery of Clozapine therapy across community and inpatient mental health services. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, you'll lead quality improvement initiatives, provide specialist education and clinical guidance, and ensure consumers receive recovery-focused, evidence-based care that meets legislative and professional standards.

• Lead specialist Clozapine services across community and inpatient settings.
• Coordinate Clozapine clinics and the General Practitioner Shared Care Program.
• Deliver person-centred, recovery-focused care that improves consumer outcomes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders.

About you:

You are an experienced mental health nurse with advanced clinical expertise, a passion for leadership and a commitment to improving outcomes for people receiving Clozapine therapy. You thrive in collaborative environments, influence positive change and inspire others through clinical excellence and compassionate care.

• Strong knowledge of Clozapine management, monitoring and relevant legislation.
• Demonstrated leadership, mentoring and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.
• Advanced clinical decision-making, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Commitment to recovery-oriented, person-centred mental health 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 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)
  
  Role Description_MS08689697 (PDF)