Ready to lead with purpose and make a real impact? Join Darling Downs Health as the Nurse Unit Manager for Alcohol and Other Drugs Services, where your leadership will help transform lives and shape a future of hope and recovery. This is your chance to work with a passionate team, drive meaningful change, and take your career to the next level in a role that truly matters.
What Your Day Will Look Like:
You'll lead a high-performing team in delivering safe, evidence-based, and compassionate care to individuals navigating substance use challenges. Your focus will be on creating a positive, person-centred practice environment—balancing clinical oversight with mentoring, service development, and strategic resource management. You'll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, shape care models through evidence-informed decision-making, and guide your team through innovation and change. Whether you're leading clinical governance initiatives, contributing to strategic planning, or supporting staff development, each moment will be driven by a shared commitment to better outcomes for the people we serve.
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.
Occupational group: Health - Mental Health Clinicians
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Health Care Provider
Industries: Hospitals and Health Care #J-18808-Ljbffr