Clinical Nurse - Mental Health Hospital in the Home

Lead with expertise and compassion in a rewarding Mental Health Clinical Nurse role.

Permanent and temporary Full-Time/Part-Time Clinical Nurse opportunities with Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services across Brisbane’s south side.

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within Mental Health Hospital in the Home, you'll provide advanced, person-centred mental health nursing care while working autonomously and as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, with opportunities to:

• Deliver comprehensive assessment, care planning and treatment for consumers experiencing acute mental health episodes.
• Provide expert clinical leadership, critical thinking and problem-solving for complex care needs.
• Support consumers and their families/carers in the home environment as an alternative to inpatient care.
• Coordinate care and contribute to clinical leadership, education, research and quality improvement.
• Mentor and support nursing staff and contribute to a positive, collaborative team culture.
• Work across a seven-day roster covering morning and afternoon shifts.

About you

We're looking for an experienced Registered Nurse who brings strong clinical judgement, contemporary mental health knowledge and a genuine commitment to recovery-focused, person-centred care, with:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
• A tertiary nursing qualification, such as a Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent.
• Advanced clinical assessment, care planning and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in mental health nursing, particularly complex care and risk assessment.
• Experience assessing and managing alcohol withdrawal and substance use disorders is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of contemporary alcohol and other drug treatment and recovery-oriented practice.
• Strong communication, collaboration, leadership and delegation skills.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, education, professional development and quality improvement.
• Postgraduate qualifications or current postgraduate study in a relevant area is highly desirable.

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What we can offer you:

• Work alongside experienced mental health and addiction professionals in a collaborative team environment.
• Access opportunities to contribute to education, research, clinical facilitation and quality improvement.
• Develop your clinical leadership skills while working with complex presentations and contemporary models of care.
• Benefit from a workplace that supports professional excellence, lifelong learning and high-quality care.
• Access flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance where operationally possible.
• Join a diverse and inclusive health service that values the people and communities it serves.

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.