Clinical Nurse Consultant

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse Consultant – Emergency Department Mental Health (EDMH), you'll play a vital leadership role in the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care for consumers presenting with acute mental health concerns. You'll collaborate across emergency, inpatient and community settings to support seamless, safe, and compassionate care by:

• Providing advanced clinical consultancy, assessment, and triage for consumers requiring urgent psychiatric support.
• Leading and supporting the EDMH team to ensure evidence-based, high-quality practice.
• Liaising with multidisciplinary teams to improve continuity and outcomes across the care continuum.
• Supporting clinical governance, quality improvement, and workforce education initiatives.
• Applying advanced leadership and decision-making to promote safety, efficiency, and collaboration in care delivery.

About you:

You're an experienced and passionate mental health nurse who thrives in dynamic clinical environments and is committed to improving outcomes for consumers experiencing acute distress. You'll bring this to the role with:

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) as a Registered Nurse.
• Extensive experience in acute or emergency mental health settings and advanced clinical decision-making skills.
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, policies, and evidence-based frameworks.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor teams, promote education, and manage change.
• Exceptional communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
• (Desirable) Credentialing as a Mental Health Nurse and/or Authorised Mental Health Practitioner (or working towards).

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What we can offer you:

• Opportunities for career development, education, and participation in research initiatives.
• A supportive, multidisciplinary team culture fostering growth, collaboration, and innovation.
• Access to flexible working arrangements and work-life balance initiatives.
• The chance to contribute to nationally recognised Magnet and Pathway to Excellence programs that celebrate nursing excellence.
• 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.

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

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 better together.