Make a Difference Where It Matters Most

Bring your clinical expertise and leadership to mental health care in the community. As a Clinical Nurse with the Mental Health Hospital in the Home (MH-HITH) program, you’ll help consumers navigate acute mental health challenges in the comfort of their own homes, delivering compassionate, recovery-focused care that empowers individuals, supports families and creates meaningful change beyond the hospital walls.

Your new role:

As a Clinical Nurse with the Mental Health Hospital in the Home (MH-HITH) program, you will provide expert mental health nursing care to consumers experiencing acute mental health episodes, delivering individualised, recovery-focused treatment in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission.

- Deliver expert clinical care: Lead comprehensive assessment, care planning and delivery of safe, compassionate, person-centred mental health nursing care for consumers with complex needs in a community-based setting.
- Provide clinical leadership: Apply advanced clinical judgement and problem-solving skills to guide clinical decision-making, coordinate care and support the multidisciplinary team to achieve positive consumer outcomes.
- Drive quality and service improvement: Contribute to clinical governance, risk management, quality improvement initiatives and evidence-based practice to promote safe, effective and contemporary care.

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated mental health nurse who demonstrates strong clinical leadership, sound professional judgement and a commitment to delivering recovery-focused care that empowers consumers and supports their families and carers.





- Advanced clinical capability: Demonstrate well-developed mental health nursing knowledge, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently manage complex clinical situations and deliver evidence-based, person-centred care.
- Leadership and collaboration: Bring the confidence to lead clinical practice, coordinate care, support colleagues and foster a team-oriented team environment through effective communication, mentoring and professional role modelling.
- Commitment to quality and safety: Apply a strong understanding of clinical governance, risk management, skilled standards and continuous improvement to support safe, high-quality mental health service delivery.

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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 career development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

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.

📌 Clinical Nurse (Brisbane)
🏢 Department of Health - Queensland
📍 Brisbane