Your new role: As Team Leader, you will provide operational management and advanced clinical leadership to an interprofessional community mental health team, ensuring high-quality, consumer-centred care within the West Community Care Team. Lead and manage the delivery of complex community mental health services, providing operational direction and clinical leadership to nursing and allied health professionals. Apply advanced clinical expertise and independent professional judgement to support care coordination, treatment planning, discharge planning and service transitions for consumers with complex needs. Drive service quality, safety and performance through evidence-based practice, clinical governance, workforce planning and data-informed decision making. Provide strategic leadership aligned with Hospital and Health Service priorities, contributing to service improvement, innovation, education and research across Adult Mental Health Services. About you: You are an experienced mental health clinician and leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality community-based care and fostering strong, collaborative teams. Demonstrated advanced clinical expertise in mental health and a strong commitment to evidence-based, consumer-centred practice. Proven ability to lead, mentor and support multidisciplinary teams, including managing workloads, staffing, performance and change in complex service environments. Highly developed communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and resolve complex clinical and operational issues. A strategic and innovative leader with experience in service improvement, workforce planning and research or quality initiatives that enhance mental health service delivery. 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 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.
