Join a passionate team at Darling Downs Health where your expertise as a Clinical Nurse will make a lasting impact on the lives of children, young people, and their families. This is your opportunity to deliver high-quality mental health care in both acute and community settings, working within a supportive, multidisciplinary environment that values compassion, collaboration, and clinical excellence.
What your day will look like….
You'll engage deeply with children and adolescents experiencing complex mental health challenges, conducting comprehensive assessments and delivering therapeutic interventions that foster recovery and resilience. Whether you're coordinating care plans, collaborating with fellow clinicians, mentoring junior staff, or responding to acute presentations, your work will be dynamic, meaningful, and grounded in evidence-based practice. Every interaction—whether with a young person, their family, or your team—will be an opportunity to lead with empathy, advocate for safety, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and skilled growth.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
- Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Next step….
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
Work with Us | Rural (PDF) ( https://www.darlingdowns.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/104741/5550-workforusrural.pdf )
Work with Us | Toowoomba (PDF) ( https://www.darlingdowns.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/104739/Team-Darling-Downs-Toowoomba.pdf )
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