Your new role: As a Clinical Nurse in Addiction and Mental Health, you will deliver advanced clinical care and leadership for patients with complex needs, while supporting professional practice, education, and research within the healthcare team. Provide expert clinical management and coordination of specialist nursing care in addiction and mental health, ensuring quality and safety standards are met. Lead and mentor nursing staff, delegating appropriately while fostering a collaborative and supportive team environment. Participate in quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits, and the development of risk minimisation strategies to enhance patient outcomes. Support education and professional development through clinical facilitation, promoting evidence-based practice and lifelong learning. About you: We are seeking a skilled and compassionate clinical nurse with advanced knowledge in addiction and mental health nursing, who can lead with integrity and drive excellence in patient care. Demonstrated ability to provide autonomous, high-quality clinical care to patients with complex mental health and addiction needs. Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with experience supporting and guiding multidisciplinary healthcare teams. Commitment to continuous quality improvement, clinical education, and research participation. Proficient in applying clinical judgement, managing change, and using electronic medical records and healthcare IT systems effectively. 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 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 Metro South Health: We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.
