Your new role:
As the Clinical Nurse Consultant - Early Psychosis, you will provide advanced clinical leadership and specialist mental health nursing expertise within a community-based multidisciplinary team. You will support the delivery of evidence-based, person-centred care while driving quality improvement, education, and service development initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Provide expert clinical leadership and advanced nursing care for young people experiencing early psychosis.
Deliver specialist consultation, assessment, care planning and support across the continuum of care.
Lead quality improvement, clinical governance and service development initiatives.
Mentor, educate and support nursing and multidisciplinary staff to achieve best-practice outcomes.
About you:
You are an experienced mental health nurse with a passion for supporting young people and families through recovery-focused care. You thrive in collaborative environments and demonstrate strong leadership, clinical expertise and a commitment to continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring
Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).
Extensive experience in mental health nursing, ideally within youth mental health or early psychosis services.
Advanced clinical assessment, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Proven ability to lead, mentor and influence multidisciplinary teams while driving quality improvement.
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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.
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