Clinical Nurse Specialist

About your role

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you'll provide expert clinical consultancy and leadership in the field of Deafness and Mental Health.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver advanced person-centred nursing care for individuals with complex needs in deafness and mental health.
• Provide clinical leadership, guidance, and consultation to staff across Queensland Health and external partners.
• Support workforce education and training to enhance clinical practice in deafness and mental health care.
• Lead quality and service improvement initiatives that advance best practice standards.
• Contribute to research and resource development to improve outcomes and expand the evidence base.
• Model clinical excellence, integrity, and collaboration within a multidisciplinary environment.

About you

You are a compassionate and experienced nurse leader with advanced clinical expertise in mental health nursing and a passion for improving care for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. You thrive in collaborative environments, demonstrate critical thinking, and inspire others through education, innovation, and evidence-based practice.

You'll bring:

• Advanced clinical knowledge and skills in mental health nursing, with experience supporting individuals with hearing impairment (desirable).
• Demonstrated leadership in clinical governance, education, and quality improvement.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills to collaborate across diverse teams.
• A commitment to continuous learning, research, and workforce development.
• Relevant postgraduate qualifications (or working towards them) are highly regarded.

What we can offer you:

• 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.

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.