Your new role:

Lead expert nursing care for older adults with complex mental health and addiction needs in a collaborative healthcare team by:

• Providing advanced clinical assessment, planning, and coordination of care across inpatient and community settings
• Leading, mentoring, and supervising nursing staff including Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses, and students
• Driving quality improvement, risk management, and safe practice initiatives aligned with national standards
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver specialist nursing care in addictions, homelessness, and mental health
• Work 3 days per week, with flexible shift arrangements in Logan Central

About you:

You are a skilled, autonomous Clinical Nurse passionate about specialist, person-centred care for older adults with mental health and addiction needs with

• Strong clinical knowledge and leadership in mental health or addiction nursing
• Experience mentoring and supervising nursing teams
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills
• Commitment to professional development and nursing standards

What we can offer you:

A family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle

The chance to work across multiple hospital sites within Metro South Health, providing variety and broad clinical experience

Flexible working arrangements including flexible hours and opportunities to accrue additional leave, supporting your work-life balance and personal commitments

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

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

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 Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.