Clinical Nurse Consultant
- Brisbane, QLD
- Permanent
- Full-time
Position type Full-time
Occupational group Health - Nursing
Classification Nurse Grade 7
Workplace Location Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS09658276
Closing date 16-Sep-2025
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Contact person Margo Taylor
Contact details 31762831
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We are seeking an experienced and motivated Clinical Nurse Consultant to provide advanced clinical leadership and expertise within the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service at Metro South Health. In this role, you will make a real impact by improving integration of mental health care in the general hospital setting.
- Deliver expert clinical consultancy, triage, and assessment services for patients in medical and surgical wards.
- Provide specialist mental health nursing advice, education, and support to nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals.
- Lead and contribute to innovation, service redesign, quality improvement, and research within the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry specialty.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, person-centred, and evidence-based care across Metro South Health facilities.
You are a clinical leader with advanced mental health nursing expertise, strong communication skills, and a passion for mentoring and capacity-building within health teams. You thrive in dynamic environments and bring a proactive, patient-centred approach to your work.
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) as a Registered Nurse, with tertiary qualifications in nursing.
- Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge, skills, and competence in mental health nursing, including assessment, care planning, and risk management.
- Proven leadership in mentoring, education, and clinical supervision, fostering positive practice environments.
- Strong ability to influence, lead change, and contribute to research, quality improvement, and service development initiatives.
- 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.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.
We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.
We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.
Princess Alexandra Hospital, a place of countless opportunities to learn and grow your career!INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCEOur 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 Metro South Health:
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.We are better together.Further informationWe are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote and .Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.DocumentsBefore applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.Role DescriptionInformation Package for ApplicantsInformation Package for Applicants