Clinical Nurse Consultant

Make the move. Make a difference.

Are you ready to inspire confidence?

Join a highly specialised team making a real difference in community safety and mental health outcomes delivering expert clinical care to some of the most complex and challenging consumers within the mental health system. Through collaborative, evidence-based practice, the team plays a critical role in supporting recovery, reducing risk, enhancing community safety, and improving the lives of consumers and their families.

About us: 

The Community Forensic Outreach Service (CFOS) is a team within the broader Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS). CFOS provides high level clinical risk assessment and therapy services for the management of mental health consumers who have committed, are alleged to have committed or are at risk of committing an offence.

Our values were developed by our staff, patients and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About your role:

In this position you will…..

• Review risk management plans and deal with non-routine clinical practice in relation to forensic and risk issues.
• Develop and maintain positive liaison contact with mental health staff and other relevant stakeholders in community and inpatient settings and work collaboratively to address complex and challenging patient risk and management issues.
• Provide a range of consultation-liaison support including case conferences, structured case consultations, attendance at and input into team case review meetings, participation in review processes, and so on, including attendance at Assessment and Risk Management Committee meetings.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest. 

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