Lead innovative mental health crisis support services!
Be part of a pioneering Crisis Support Space, providing expert care, clinical leadership and hope for people experiencing mental health distress.
Your New Role
As the Clinical Nurse Consultant – Crisis Support Space, you will provide advanced clinical leadership, specialist mental health expertise and operational oversight within a unique, recovery-oriented service supporting people experiencing mental health crisis, emotional distress or suicidal thoughts.
* Provide expert clinical assessment, risk assessment, safety planning, brief interventions and psychosocial support to individuals accessing the Crisis Support Space.
* Lead and support a multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively with peer workers, the Emergency Department, mental health services, consumers, carers and community partners to deliver safe, person-centred care.
* Drive service development, quality improvement and evaluation activities, contributing to innovative care pathways and enhanced outcomes for people experiencing mental health crises.
* Utilise advanced clinical knowledge and leadership skills to promote evidence-based practice, provide clinical supervision and support the delivery of a therapeutic, culturally safe and recovery-focused environment.
About you
* Registered Nurse with demonstrated advanced clinical expertise in mental health nursing, including comprehensive assessment, crisis intervention and risk management.
* Proven ability to work autonomously and provide clinical leadership, supervision, mentoring and support within multidisciplinary and peer-led service environments.
* Strong understanding of contemporary mental health practice, recovery frameworks, the Mental Health Act 2016 and evidence-based approaches to improving consumer outcomes.
* Highly developed communication, collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills, with a commitment to quality improvement, service innovation and person-centred care.
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 better together.
Occupational group: Health - Nursing
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