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Building strong community connections. Join the Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Services as a Clinical Nurse and experience the unique opportunity to deliver care that truly matters – while living in one of Australia’s most beautiful and relaxed tropical regions. This is your chance to take advantage of THIS 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.

Job details Position status Permanent
Position type Part-time
Occupational group Health - Nursing
Classification Nurse Grade 6 (1)
Workplace Location Cairns region,Far North Qld
Job ad reference QLD/CAH690364
Closing date 07-Sep-2026
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Salary Other
Job duration Permanent Part Time
Contact person Stacie Gill
Contact details 07 4226 2847
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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…

- Apply independent clinical judgement and decision making to complex clinical presentations.
- Proactively participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team and promote the services and profile of Access Services within the HHS.
- Maintain the currency of high-quality clinical practice knowledge, quality activities, skills and expertise by actively contributing to professional development, education, supervision.

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

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📌 Clinical Nurse - Maternal & Child (Perinatal Acute Mental Health Hospital in the Home) - Cairns
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