Clinical Nurse Consultant

Your new role:

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) to provide advanced clinical leadership and expert nursing care within the Crisis Support Space at PAH, supporting mental health service integration and high-quality patient outcomes.

• Deliver advanced clinical nursing expertise and consultancy in mental health, including triage functions to ensure timely and appropriate clinical referrals.
• Lead and support multidisciplinary teams, including collaboration with Emergency Department Mental Health, inpatient units, and community teams to facilitate patient navigation and integrated care.
• Drive quality improvement initiatives, clinical redesign, and workforce development aligned with organisational goals and evidence-based practice.
• Provide education, supervision, and mentoring to nursing staff and contribute to research and innovation within the specialty.

About you:

You are a highly skilled mental health nurse with advanced clinical expertise, passionate about leading service improvements and delivering compassionate, patient-centred care in a complex, fast-paced environment.

• Extensive experience in mental health nursing, with demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge and leadership skills.
• Strong ability to manage clinical risk, provide expert nursing consultation, and lead change initiatives within multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills to foster teamwork and deliver education and mentoring.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous professional development, and contributing to research and quality improvement activities.

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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 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.