Grow Your Nurse Practitioner Career in Emergency Mental Health!
Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services as a temporary full-time Nurse Practitioner Candidate (up to 2 years) within the Emergency Mental Health Parallel Care Clinician team at Redland Hospital. This advanced practice opportunity supports clinicians undertaking a Nurse Practitioner Master's program to deliver high-quality, recovery-focused emergency mental health and addiction care within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment.
About This Role
As the Nurse Practitioner Candidate – EMHPCC, you will deliver advanced mental health and addiction nursing care within the Emergency Department while developing extended clinical practice skills under the supervision of an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Medical Officer. Working closely with emergency and mental health teams, you will help improve consumer outcomes through rapid assessment, intervention, care planning and service innovation.
* Deliver advanced mental health and addiction assessments, interventions and care planning in the Emergency Department.
* Work collaboratively with ED clinicians and multidisciplinary teams to support safe, timely and recovery-focused care.
* Develop extended clinical practice skills while completing an accredited Nurse Practitioner Master's program.
* Contribute to education, quality improvement, research and contemporary models of emergency mental health care.
About You
You are a compassionate and clinically skilled mental health nurse who thrives in fast-paced environments and is committed to delivering person-centred, evidence-based care.
* Currently enrolled in, or eligible to enrol in, an accredited Nurse Practitioner Master's program.
* Strong assessment, critical thinking and decision-making skills within complex clinical environments.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to support consumers, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
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.
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.
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