Lead, Inspire and Shape Community Mental Health Care!

Make a meaningful difference in community mental health with Metro South Health! Join the PAH Community Care Team as a temporary full-time Clinical Nurse Consultant and use your advanced mental health nursing expertise to lead clinical practice, mentor clinicians and support people living with complex mental health conditions on their recovery journey. Help shape evidence-based, person-centred care within a collaborative multidisciplinary team.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse Consultant, you will empower clinicians, strengthen nursing practice and help deliver individualised care that supports consumers to achieve their recovery goals.

In this role, you will:

• Provide advanced clinical expertise and guidance to support the assessment and management of consumers with complex mental health needs.
• Mentor, coach and support the clinical development of new staff and early-career practitioners.
• Collaborate with nursing and allied health professionals to develop and deliver specialist interventions and evidence-based care.
• Promote clinical excellence, quality improvement and safe transitions of care in the community and sub-acute settings.

About you:

You are an experienced mental health nurse with strong clinical leadership skills and a passion for supporting recovery-focused, person-centred care. You can guide and inspire others, apply expert clinical judgement and work collaboratively to achieve positive outcomes for consumers and their families.

To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical knowledge and expertise in mental health nursing, including the management of complex consumer needs.
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to mentor and support a multidisciplinary team.
• The ability to apply evidence-based practice, clinical governance and quality improvement principles to enhance care.
• A collaborative, compassionate and recovery-oriented approach that respects consumers, carers and colleagues.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

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)
  
  MS11695232 Role Description (PDF)