About the role
Your new role
As a Clinical Nurse with the Adult Wellbeing Team, you will provide advanced clinical care and leadership to support adults experiencing mental health challenges. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will coordinate brief therapeutic interventions for up to 12 weeks, helping consumers build skills, improve wellbeing and achieve their recovery goals.
- Deliver expert care: Conduct comprehensive mental health and risk assessments, develop individualised care plans and evaluate clinical outcomes.
- Lead therapeutic interventions: Support evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing and psychoeducation.
- Guide and support others: Provide clinical leadership, mentoring, education and guidance to nursing colleagues and multidisciplinary team members.
- Drive quality improvement: Contribute to clinical audits, research, risk management and service improvements that strengthen safe, person-centred care
About you
You are an experienced mental health nurse who combines advanced clinical knowledge with strong leadership and problem-solving skills. You are passionate about recovery-oriented practice, building therapeutic relationships and empowering consumers to achieve positive outcomes. You work collaboratively, exercise sound clinical judgement and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and quality improvement.
To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:
- Advanced clinical expertise: Apply specialist mental health nursing knowledge to assess, plan and manage complex consumer care.
- Clinical leadership: Use critical thinking, sound judgement and effective communication to guide clinical practice and support team performance.
- Collaborative practice: Build strong relationships with consumers, families, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues to achieve positive outcomes.
- Quality and innovation: Apply evidence-based practice, contribute to clinical education and audits, and identify opportunities to improve service delivery.
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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.