Clinical Nurse (Perinatal Acute Mental Health Hospital in the Home) - Cairns

Make the move. Make a difference.

Be the steady voice in uncertain times.

Take the next step in your nursing journey with the Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Services as a Clinical Nurse. Whether you’re ready to lead or looking to develop your expertise, we offer excellent support, diverse settings, and a welcoming team. Take advantage of your opportunity to work within a collaborative and innovative care environment, supported by colleagues from psychiatry, general medicine, nursing, allied health, First Nations health, and lived experience backgrounds.

About us:

The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (CHHHS) Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs (MHAOD) Service is leading the way in innovative perinatal mental health care. As pioneers of an Australian-first model, we are proud to deliver the Perinatal Acute Mental Health Hospital in the Home (PAMH-HITH) program, providing women and birthing people experiencing severe and acute perinatal mental illness with specialist, hospital-level care close to home.

This service is designed to operate as a virtual inpatient bed admission model, where consumers receive hospital-equivalent care in their home environment rather than within a traditional inpatient unit or Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) as a proposed interim model designed to meet the care needs of the community until a time when a physical MBU can be established in the Cairns and Hinterland region.

Join a passionate, multidisciplinary team that is redefining perinatal mental health care and improving outcomes for women, babies and families across Central Queensland.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

Our values were developed by our staff, patients and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About your opportunity:

In this position you will…

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based, clinical perinatal acute mental health services (including mental health assessment, treatment, investigation, diagnosis, and short-term management) in accordance with professional and ethical standards.
• Apply independent clinical judgement and decision making to complex clinical presentations.
• Proactively participate in the multidisciplinary team and actively promote the services and profile of Access Services within the Hospital and Health Service.
• Maintain the currency and high quality of clinical practice knowledge, skills, and expertise by actively contributing to and participating in professional development activities.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest. 

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