Nurse Practitioner Candidate - Emergency Mental Health Parallel Care Clinician (EMHPCC)

Join our expert Emergency Mental Health team!

Take the next step towards Nurse Practitioner endorsement while making a meaningful difference in emergency mental health care.

As the Nurse Practitioner Candidate – Emergency Mental Health Parallel Care Clinician, you will deliver advanced, person-centred mental health care within the Emergency Department while developing your Nurse Practitioner capabilities under clinical supervision. Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, you will help improve outcomes for consumers experiencing mental health, behavioural health and substance use presentations.

• Provide advanced mental health assessment, intervention and care planning for consumers presenting to the Emergency Department, working alongside medical teams to deliver timely, evidence-based care.
• Develop extended clinical practice skills under the mentorship and supervision of an endorsed Nurse Practitioner or medical officer while contributing to innovative models of mental health care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, consumers, families and carers to support shared decision-making, coordinated care and safe discharge or referral pathways.

You are a passionate and experienced registered nurse with advanced mental health knowledge who is committed to delivering compassionate, recovery-focused care while progressing towards Nurse Practitioner endorsement. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, value collaboration and are driven to continually improve patient outcomes through evidence-based practice.

• Registered Nurse with current NMBA registration, eligible for or enrolled in an accredited Nurse Practitioner Master's program, with demonstrated advanced practice experience in mental health and/or addiction services.
• Highly developed clinical assessment, critical thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to provide safe, person-centred care for consumers with complex mental health, behavioural health and substance use needs.
• Strong communication, leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships, educate others and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to professional development, quality improvement, research and innovation, with a focus on delivering contemporary, evidence-based care.

• 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.

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.