Clinical Nurse Consultant - (Clinical Care Coordinator Mental Health)

Use Your Expertise to Strengthen Mental Health Care Pathways

Permanent full-time opportunity for an experienced Senior Allied Health professional to provide specialist clinical care, leadership and care coordination across Metro South Health and The Way Back Support Service.

As the Clinical Nurse Consultant – Mental Health Clinical Care Coordinator, you will provide advanced clinical leadership and consultancy to support seamless care pathways for people experiencing suicidal crisis or who have attempted suicide. Working within the Acute Care Team, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and the non-government service provider to strengthen referral pathways, care coordination and recovery-focused outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership in mental health nursing practice.
• Coordinate referrals and care delivery between Metro South Health and The Way Back Support Service.
• Provide clinical consultancy, education, mentoring and support to nurses and multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead quality improvement, evidence-based practice and service development initiatives.

We are looking for an experienced mental health nurse who can demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge, sound professional judgement and strong leadership skills. You will be confident working collaboratively across clinical and community settings and building effective relationships with internal and external partners.

You will bring:

• Advanced mental health nursing knowledge, assessment and clinical decision-making skills.
• Strong communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex care and develop effective referral and escalation pathways.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement, education and positive patient outcomes.

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• 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.

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 better together.