Mental Health Nurse jobs

Your new role:
As a Clinical Nurse within the Mental Health CALL Tele Triage Unit, you will deliver advanced mental health nursing care and provide expert clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team environment. You will contribute to safe, recovery-oriented services that support consumers and their families across Queensland.

Key responsibilities include:
Conduct comprehensive mental health and risk assessments and coordinate recovery-focused care.
Provide advanced clinical leadership and support evidence-based practice across the service.
Deliver specialist advice regarding mental health care, risk management and Mental Health Act legislation.
Contribute to quality improvement, education, clinical governance and service development activities.

About you:
You are an experienced and compassionate Registered Nurse with strong mental health expertise and a commitment to delivering exceptional consumer-centred care.

You will bring:
Advanced knowledge and experience in contemporary mental health nursing practice.
Strong clinical assessment, critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build collaborative relationships.
A commitment to professional leadership, quality improvement and ongoing learning.

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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 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.

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