Clinical Nurse Consultant - Acute Care Team

Your new role: Join the Princess Alexandra Hospital Acute Care Team as a Clinical Nurse Consultant and provide advanced clinical leadership, expert consultancy and contemporary mental health nursing care in a community setting. Working collaboratively with the Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Leader, Senior Allied Health Practitioner and broader multidisciplinary team, you will support safe, high-quality and recovery-focused outcomes for consumers. * Provide advanced clinical assessment, care planning, risk management and nursing care. * Act as a clinical expert and resource for staff, consumers, carers and stakeholders. * Lead quality improvement, clinical redesign and evidence-based practice initiatives. * Support effective collaboration across GPs, NGOs and government services. About you: We are looking for an experienced mental health nursing professional who brings advanced clinical knowledge, strong leadership capability and a genuine commitment to recovery-focused, person-centred care. * Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in contemporary mental health nursing. * Strong clinical judgement, critical thinking and complex decision-making skills. * Demonstrated leadership, communication, negotiation and collaboration skills. * Experience supporting education, mentoring, coaching and professional development. Check out our quick tips and application essentials! 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. 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.