The CYMHS Acute Response Team provides specialist mental health assessments within the Emergency Departments across Logan and Redland Hospitals.
Lead advanced mental health care for children and young people while providing clinical expertise and support across emergency and community settings.
About This Role
Your new role:
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Nurse Consultant to provide advanced clinical leadership within the Child and Youth Mental Health Service Acute Response Team, delivering specialist mental health care across emergency and community settings.
* Provide advanced clinical expertise and consultancy in child and youth mental health assessment and care.
* Lead and support high standards of safe, quality care through clinical leadership, governance, and best practice nursing standards.
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support service delivery, workforce development, and continuous improvement in mental health care.
About You
You are a skilled and confident mental health professional who brings strong clinical judgement, leadership capability, and a commitment to high-quality care for children, young people, and their families.
* Extensive experience in mental health nursing, ideally within child and youth mental health services.
* Demonstrated ability to provide advanced clinical leadership and operate autonomously within complex clinical environments.
* Strong decision-making skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
* Commitment to clinical governance, education, research, and the ongoing development of high-performing healthcare teams.
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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.
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.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position. #J-18808-Ljbffr