Clinical Nurse, Mental Health

Overview

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Join our team

Make a meaningful impact by joining our multidisciplinary mental health team, delivering compassionate care and advancing your clinical career.

Your New Role

Join our dynamic PA Acute Care Team as a Mental Health Clinician delivering vital Psychology, Occupational Therapy, and/or Social Work services within a multidisciplinary setting. You will provide comprehensive clinical assessments, therapeutic interventions, and support discharge planning, while contributing to education, supervision, and continuous service improvement.

• Deliver patient-centred assessment, intervention, and management in line with evidence-based clinical and departmental protocols.
• Collaborate effectively within an interprofessional team to ensure holistic care and positive patient outcomes.
• Provide clinical education and supervision to students and allied health assistants, fostering professional growth.

About you

We are seeking an adaptable and skilled clinician committed to delivering high-quality mental health care within a supportive and collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will demonstrate clinical excellence, teamwork, and a dedication to ongoing professional development.

• Proven ability to provide efficient, evidence-based clinical care within mental health settings.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and engage with clients and carers.
• Commitment to continuous learning, professional growth, and participation in clinical education or supervision.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm for contributing to service improvement initiatives and quality care delivery.

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.
• 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 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

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care

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