Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse in the Early Psychosis Team, you will deliver specialist nursing care and leadership within a multidisciplinary mental health service. You'll provide assessment, care coordination, and recovery-oriented interventions for consumers and their families while contributing to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering evidence-based nursing care and recovery-focused interventions
• Conducting comprehensive mental health assessments and risk management
• Developing and evaluating care plans in partnership with consumers and families
• Providing clinical support, mentoring, and leadership to nursing and allied health staff
• Promoting safe, person-centred, and trauma-informed practices

About you:

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate nurse who brings advanced clinical skills, strong leadership, and a passion for early intervention in mental health.

To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA)
• Postgraduate qualifications or progress toward qualifications in mental health (highly desirable)
• Credentialing or eligibility for credentialing as a mental health nurse
• Experience in mental health assessment, case management, and crisis intervention
• High-level communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, consumer recovery, and multidisciplinary teamwork

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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.

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.