Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse within Wisteria Unit, you will provide expert, recovery-focused mental health nursing care while supporting clinical excellence, education and professional leadership across the team.

Provide advanced clinical assessment, care planning and coordination for patients with complex mental health needs, delivering safe, compassionate and person-centred care.

Provide clinical leadership to the nursing and multidisciplinary team, using advanced critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills to support high-quality patient outcomes.

Contribute to the coordination of the unit, including staff supervision, shift coordination, resource management, change management and quality improvement activities.

Support a robust learning culture through clinical education, mentoring, research, audits and the implementation of evidence-based practice and contemporary mental health nursing approaches.

About you:

We are looking for an experienced mental health nurse who brings strong clinical expertise, leadership capability and a genuine commitment to recovery-focused, person-centred care.

Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge, skills and experience in mental health nursing, including the assessment, care planning and management of patients with complex needs.

Strong clinical leadership, communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to provide direction, delegate effectively and support the development of colleagues.

Demonstrated ability to apply critical thinking, problem-solving and evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes, manage risk and maintain high clinical standards.

A commitment to ongoing professional development, quality improvement and contemporary mental health practice, including working towards or maintaining credentialing through the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses and obtaining Authorised Mental Health Practitioner status.

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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.

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📌 Clinical Nurse - Mental Health (Brisbane)
🏢 Queensland Government
📍 Brisbane