Clinical Nurse

Overview

Clinical Nurse - Older Adults Mental Health at Metro South Health. Lead the Way in Specialist Mental Health Care for Older Adults – Join Us as a Clinical Nurse

Looking for the opportunity to change people's lives and make a difference?

Utilise your advanced clinical expertise to deliver and coordinate high-quality care for older adults with complex mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Support service delivery across clinical care, education, quality improvement, and research, contributing to excellence in patient outcomes.
  
• Take on a key leadership position in the absence of the Nurse Grade 7, with responsibility for delegation, supervision, and team support.
  
• Onsight parking, inpatient mental health service as well as community centres across three sites.
  

About you

If you are a highly skilled and compassionate nurse with advanced clinical expertise and a passion for delivering excellence in Older Adults Mental Health, and you thrive in complex care environments, lead by example, and contribute meaningfully to patient outcomes, we want you.

• You bring advanced clinical knowledge and expert judgement to deliver safe, person-centred care, addressing the holistic needs of older adults with complex mental health conditions.
  
• You demonstrate critical thinking, leadership, and the ability to support and mentor others across clinical care, education, and service improvement initiatives.
  
• You are committed to evidence-based practice, continuous learning, and the implementation of quality and safety standards across all aspects of care.
  
• You excel in collaborative, multidisciplinary environments, using your strong communication and interpersonal skills to influence positive change and drive innovation.
  

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 Metro South Health

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Occupational group

• Health - Nursing
  

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level
  

Employment type

• Full-time
  

Job function

• Health Care Provider
  

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care
  

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